Performance & The New RealPlayer

Ben Rotholtz, General Manager Web Services & Syndication

The performance of RealPlayer has been dramatically improved. But what is performance and why should you care?

Ultimately, performance enables you to use your time more efficiently and get more out of life. To begin with (there’s always a beginning) performance can be measured in many different ways, such as installation, startup, workflow, video playback, bandwidth negotiation and reliability.  Performance can be thought of as the synchronized combination of these functions.

The first impression of RealPlayer performance is how quickly we can get you into the driver’s seat through an installation process that is just four clicks easy – and doesn't leave you with interfering or confusing defaults. No need to restart your machine after installing (though you will need to close your browser during installation to enable the “Download this Video” plug-in). Then hit the ignition and RealPlayer starts up much faster than previous versions, first time and every time. The benefit to you is that you don't have to wait to play.

We've improved workflow. Features and controls are in a logical place at the logical time.  You spot a piece of video on some web site, the content looks interesting but it’s not convenient for you to watch it at that time.  No need to start-up the RealPlayer. Hovering above that video is the “Download This Video” button.  Hit the button. No need to watch the entire clip while you download.  You can navigate to a different site or even close your browser and the clip will be downloaded (or recorded) in the background faster than you could watch the clip itself.

Time-shifting video from tens-of-thousands of web sites with one simple interface translates to an enormous time-saving benefit.  The new RealPlayer puts you in control of web video so that’s it on your schedule and in your lifestyle – offline, burned to a DVD and by the end-of-the-year available for transfer to portable devices. This is one more faceplate of performance.

Behind the scenes of web video time-shifting are workflow enhancements that you don't ever need to know about but that are constantly working for you. You don’t have to care about what format is being used (Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media or RealMedia), what player is used and what method of delivery is being employed (on-demand streaming, live streaming, progressive). Our goal with this release was to rationalize video content across the web and make it as effortless as possible for you to easily play back web video in your own environment when and where you wanted.

Then there’s the video playback itself within the RealPlayer. You can play videos back in RealPlayer full screen theatre mode. There’s no need to wait for Mr. Buffer to navigate around some interminable network router that is mindlessly tossing packets overboard because it’s overwhelmed.  We've tuned the video engine to deliver smooth, full motion, playback.  As the inventors of streaming we applied these video performance improvements to video streams as well so your on-line experience will be better.

We've also strived to make this a much more reliable RealPlayer which will always save you time.  Put another way, we've fixed a lot of bugs. That said, we are in beta as a consequence there are still bugs that will occasionally get in your way and impede performance. We've staked our reputation on providing a great experience with the new RealPlayer and we'd like to enlist your help to identify any problems that you encounter.  Let us know what you think.

Here’s to better performance.

Comments

[Carlos]

I'm using RealPlayer 11 under Mac OS 10.5.2 on an Intel Mac Pro. Found an oddity. All film clips downloaded by RealPlayer Downloader are placed in a folder titled RealPlayer Downloads. All film clips then work properly. However, when I try to organize the 40 or so film clips I have into subfolders, they no longer work. You can double click the .flv file or drag & drop onto the RealPlayer icon, or do a File>Open File menu command; but nothing works. Move the .flv file out of the subfolder and, voila, it works again. I've never seen anything like it!!

[Bex]

PLEASE HELP....there is a RealPlayer box stuck on my screen and i have to turn off the internet to get rid of it! it has the Realplayer logo and says 'Download This Video' at the far end is a drop down box and a x- close sign but it won't close and appears over the page i am viewing. I don't know why it appears but it seems that if i look at a site with this on, it decides to attach itself to me, its on each of my tags in the same place and i cannot move it. The only thing i can thinikk of is to uninstall realplayer? can u help?

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We love RealPlayer.......never had a problem

[Lisann]

I have just purchased a new desktop with vista operating system. My real player will not "record" anything! Does anyone out there know how I may fix this? It either says that the recording feature is disabled or that "the owner of this content does not allow recording." However on my windows xp desktop pc I have no problem recording anything I listen to via internet on my real player. Any help?

[ruth sherman]

I used to get a video button saying download this video (from youtube) but it stopped appearing and I don't know how to get it back.

[JonShadowX]

Ever since i download the new internet explorer 8 from yahoo..the "Download This Clip/Video" button won't appear anymore..is there something i can do to fix it?

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