New RealPlayer is Now Available

By Matt Spragins, Director of Product, RealPlayer

The new RealPlayer beta is now available for download.

Please visit http://www.realplayer.com to download the new RealPlayer.

After using it, please come back and give us your feedback.

Comments

[Kevin]

PS...I have a 64Bit Windows Vista Ultimate system loaded to the hilt and downloaded video is playing beautifully.

[Kevin]

PPS......Vista Aero is disabled. That is a bit of a surprise. It does revert back once the player is shut down.

I agree this should be adressed. Vista has been on the market for almost 6 months now.

[Felipe Albertao]

I'm not sure where to post this bug, but it looks like a high-priority one, so I'm doing it here: Adobe Flex content STOPS WORKING on both Firefox and IE after RealPlayer is installed. I disabled the RP plug-in and Flex content started working again.

To reproduce this problem yourself, simply install RP Beta and visit any Flex-enabled site: For example: http://beta.boulevardr.com .Also try http://www.picnik.com (click on the "getting started" button). Or visit any showcased Flex application: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productid=26724&loc=en_us

[Doug]

Since upgrading to a Windows Vista machine I have been unable to transfer songs to my Palm T3 and also unable to play songs purchased on RealPlayer Music Store on my Palm. This has been the situation with both the latest version RealPlayer v10 and this beta version 11. Is this a known issue which the beta is going to address?

[Rob]

Matt,

I'm a long time consultant. I know it's only beta 1. The more feedback I get to you the better chance of success for your users. A very clean UI and consistency will go a long way. Beta 1 users have to realize the pain before the gain.

[Ed]

My earlier problem with playback is solved. I un-installed then re-installed and is now working beautifully!

[Sachin]

Pls help.I am not being able to burn my videos to VCD.If,i press burn,nothing happens and player crashes.

[Matt Spragins, Dir of Product, RealPlayer]

Ed,

Take a look at these settings to fix your issue.
http://real.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/real.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=5263&p_created=1124913988

Matt Spragins

[David]

I am trying to pause and rewind live radio; see below url. I get an error message that states "seeking is disabled" due to perfect play. I enabled perfectplay, but to no avail. Is this feature disabled in the Beta or am I doing something wrong?

mms://a138.l1822742875.c18227.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/138/18227/v0001/reflector:42875

[oliversl]

Can get the new beta, it keeps downloading the RealPlayer10-5GOLD.exe file :(

Anyone has the directo download link? Thanks

[isk36]

The minimum system requirements for the beta version need to be displayed more prominently. I have Win 2000. I downloaded the Real Player beta version only to be informed during installation that XP is required. -frustrated

[John]

Posted on Betanews.com 6-28-07
http://www.betanews.com/article/Real_Launches_New_Video_Player_Beta/1182879954#c850041

I'm a free user I noticed when i choose Guide and attempt to use "radio" I have a few seconds before the ad starts any other feature does not launch this. Now I did notice as the developer did say it did load faster and it's actually a better dvd player then Windvd 6 or WMP 11. Also it has a new feature that allows you to record clips by hitting the red button, there are even sections on the guide that ask would you like to record this or play? So I'll keep it, but my stream of music choice will continue to come from Winamp with the AOL Radio with XM & Shoutcast.So on a score of 1-10, I'll rate the product a (9) only because I think the ad feature should only kick in when it notices no activity.

[Joe Doe]

I hope this plugs the security flaw pointed to by the URL above...

[HP Deskjet]

Couldn't get this software off of my system quick enough. What are Real playing at? Still not Vista compatible. A complete joke.

Apart from the above ridiculous state of affairs, my Real Player Plus subscription no longer works in Real Player 11. I've already had to pay twice for Plus - once for Real One Player and again with the release of Real Player 10. If they expect me to pay a 3rd time Real Player will not be installed on my system ever again.

Keep going Real, your doing a good job at loosing loyal customers this way.

Thankfully, WMP in Vista works flawlessly and offers me everything Real Player 10 did, and, at NO EXTRA COST for a graphic equaliser. Which, I might add, should be standard these days.

[Michael]

For some reason, I do not get the ability to download flash videos. Is there a particular setting that I must implement?

[seika]

When will the final version of RealPlayer 11 be released not the buggy beta builds but a more stable build and less bugs with some bugs fixed like the disabling Aero bug. Since the beta builds expire in 120 days after installation does that mean you have to update to the final version or another beta?

[My name is...]

About the new RealPlayer...

The download manager is a great (almost only) new feature in this version.
The ability to download any streaming media format is a function that is good for private people, but is bad for service providers.
I remember the days when Real was fighting against the companies that provided streaming media download applications, but things have changed. There is a new thing called DRM and Real hasn't got quite a big market share (due to it's really closed DRM implementation) in it.
Since DRM could be a good solution for copyright problems I would still advice to implement some kind of Copyright notice in RealPlayer. For example a notice, that this content is copyrighted.

Except the download manager not much has changed since RealPlayer 10, and Real One Player. Real is still doing his angry marketing with SuperPass, and RealPlayer Plus. It would be a really good thing to have the possibility to completely disable the RealMessage Center and stop realshed.exe startup up, also to disable the annoying RealPlayer Plus messages. Remember that still nowadays not everyone has an Internet connection, and only a new window with IE's error message doesn't say too much to the user when clicking on Crossfade.

The new skin looks good, but if you compare it to WindowsMedia Player 11, it looks exactly the same. And the menus use up so much space, that there is simply no way to resize the player to compact mode or the size of a video. The possibility to remove the Music, Video and Games buttons would help on this issue, but again Real won't do this.

Harmony has been one of the new features of RealPlayer 10.5, and still it's not so hormonal. When connecting an iPod nano the song names just shuffles up on the iPod and still that disgusting iPod settings dialog box haven't been fixed.

There are still files from the original Real One Player, like: videotest.rm, waiting.avi and getmedia folder etc…

A really nice feature would be video/audio conversions. Converting a RealVideo to AVI (or any other format...) would also be nice.

And finally a bug... When and older version of a RealPlayer was installed and removed, the new RealPlayer wouldn’t work. You have to use the r1puninst.exe to make the new version work.

[Mike]

The skin? To me, it's WMP 11 with an improvement.

[John Russell]

I love the new Player except for one reason. The video capture will work from Internet Explorer; but not from AOL. If I go to YouTube from explorer I can download the video. If I close explorer and open AOL then go to YouTube and open the same video or any other I do not get the button to download the video. Any way of fixing this?

[LC Brents]

Nice improvements (on Windows XP Pro) --
* video capture works without a hitch so far
* the new cleaner "look and feel"
* the tabs, navigation generally
* new Help a big improvement already over previous version
* quicker installation
* thumbnail view for video

"Could use improvement" --
* Why a Games tab? Why is that a navigation destination equal to My Library and Real Guide?
* burned VCD of low resolution/quality.
* tried to burn DVD, but RP crashed.

[Jeff Mc]

Bought the Beta Plus so that I can burn my many RM files to DVD. The only problem is that it will only burn about 71 minutes (306mb) on a 4.7 GB DVD+R 120 minutes. These are accurate numbers because an 18 second (8mb) file cannot be added.

Also, will future versions handle recording DVDs at various qualities automatically like Roxio does?

[Andrew]

I am dissapointed by the fact that the player volume adjustment slider still modifies the "wave" slider from the global audio properties (I'm using Windows XP SP2) - which is quite annoying when you exit RealPlayer and find out the volume setting remains too low/loud for other applications.

Also, the "Download" functionality doesn't work in Opera (tested with v
9.21) which is a big thumbs down for me. On the other hand, the player seems to handle pretty well the flv files downloaded from YouTube - I can't say the same thing about other players, even VLC.

It will be nice to see a video "image crop" function - for those of us who are playing the video content on wide screen displays.

[ramakey]

be positive

[Gargantula]

Ever since I had it installed Adobe Flash Player 9 and 8 (I tried other versions to troubleshoot) crash randomly even while my computer was "sitting still" and I was not at my desk. It happened twice. I think it is because of this RealPlayer add-on since I did not have the problem before. I disabled the add-on and testing to see if it happens again, probably will not, but it is hard to tell.

I love the add-on, but random crashing is not acceptable. I lost my work a few times.

[Dan]

Even if you have an active subscription for
RealPlayer Plus, forget about it. RealPlayer
11 beta will not allow you to use the "plus"
extensions. Signing in and out, or doing
whatever you can find ot their site will not work. The ONLY THING you can do is to shell out more money and to buy a new subscription.
At least, the company should disclose this
fact on their website.