Vista…let down by Real
So a new laptop arrived chez Waldman this weekend, all nice and shiny and loaded with Vista (not for me you understand, but not everyone in our house is Mac-happy). Now Vista is very nice. And, as everyone has said, the gadgets put Mac gadgets to shame.
Anyway, all was going well - very well, in fact, until we hit a speed bump with the Real Player. We could download the installer, then get that running - but then the download manager fires up and it just hangs. Nothing. Nada.
So I scour the Real site for help. Nothing. I send Real’s support team an e-mail - they tell me they don’t support Vista as it’s still ‘beta status’. Suddenly, I lose the will to live…
Neil T. wrote:
You could try Real Alternative, though it doesn’t say that it will run on Vista and there is some question about its legal status. You may also find that VLC plays some RealMedia stuff, but not all of it. They’re worth a try, I suppose.
At this point I should insert a sarcastic comment about the fact that I am a Mac user and that we don’t have such problems, but I won’t, since on balance we can’t play a lot of Windows Media files either.
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Bayram wrote:
thanksss
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