F^&*king Real Player - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

MahlerIsGod · 09-15-2003, 05:20 PM

Personally, I hate RealPlayer. I just wanted to get that out of the way. I am running XP and when I click on my DVD-Rom drive in My Computer it always starts playing my CD with RealPlayer. I hate that. I tried to change the file association but to no avail. Is there another way to change this? Much obliged. Thanks.

meanSpleen · 09-15-2003, 05:53 PM

Options (not a sequence. Don't do all three in a row, because this is not step-by-step instructions. These are just ways to possibly aleviate the problem you are having ):

1) Go into Real Player, options or settings, and look for something with "file associations" or "Associate with ___ files" options. De-select pretty much everything. Especially "Associate with CD's" or anything that sounds simialer to that

2) Uninstall RealPlayer. Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, and uninstall realplayer.

3) Try to "Force" a different media player to play cd's by (first doing option 1) and then opening up the other media player and associating everything with that one. Like Windows Media Player.

ninety09 · 09-15-2003, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by meanSpleen
2) Uninstall RealPlayer. Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, and uninstall realplayer.

and download real alternative
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail...fid=1054136293

Frozen North · 09-15-2003, 06:09 PM

Heh, just went into RP to see what settings you'd need to change and I found that I've somehow managed to completely avoid using RP since I bought my computer 2 months ago.

Anyways, looks like meanSpleen took care of you in the meantime.

Lasereth · 09-15-2003, 06:23 PM

Nice program, thanks ninety09!

-Lasereth

Stare At The Sun · 09-15-2003, 06:50 PM

Man i hate realplayer, im suprised people still use it...

zero2 · 09-15-2003, 08:39 PM

I think you can use tweak UI to set program defaults

drawerfixer · 09-15-2003, 10:00 PM

Quicktime>Windows Media Player> Real Player

I wish they would get rid of Real, and even WMV.

Batman976 · 09-15-2003, 11:33 PM

Man, I think I'm the only person left alive who still likes and uses real player regularly.

I enjoy my cartoons in real format. File size stays nice and small. Who needs a 30 minute cartoon to be 300mb anyway? I don't have that kind of hard drive space anymore. (Perhaps I should delete most of my mp3s. I don't listen to that many of them anyway.)

Hanabal · 09-16-2003, 12:19 AM

short answer to above question, yes

Get real alternative if you use real movies, cause real player is full of ads, spyware etc. its #2 on the all time worst programs to install, and bonzai buddy is #3

dnd · 09-16-2003, 02:05 PM

why not explore the dvd drive and then right click on the file and "open with..." what ever program u want to play the music in?

Jeff · 09-16-2003, 06:21 PM

I've got a sweet little thing that plays all Real files through Winamp.

meff · 09-16-2003, 06:24 PM

Eh.. RP is shit even under Linux. Though if you grab the RP libraries mplayer can play it's files.. I, too, am surprised RP is still in use today, because it sucks soo horridly

09-15-2003, 05:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
MahlerIsGod At The Globe Showing Will How Its Done Location: London/Elysium	*F^&king Real Player** Personally, I hate RealPlayer. I just wanted to get that out of the way. I am running XP and when I click on my DVD-Rom drive in My Computer it always starts playing my CD with RealPlayer. I hate that. I tried to change the file association but to no avail. Is there another way to change this? Much obliged. Thanks. __________________ "But a work of art is a conscious human effort that has to do with communication. It is that or its nothing. When an accident is applauded as a work of art, when a cult grows up around the deliciousness of inadvertent beauty, we are in the presence of the greatest decadence the West has known in its history."

09-15-2003, 05:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
meanSpleen Squid hat! Location: A Few Miles Away From Halx	Options (not a sequence. Don't do all three in a row, because this is not step-by-step instructions. These are just ways to possibly aleviate the problem you are having ): 1) Go into Real Player, options or settings, and look for something with "file associations" or "Associate with ___ files" options. De-select pretty much everything. Especially "Associate with CD's" or anything that sounds simialer to that 2) Uninstall RealPlayer. Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, and uninstall realplayer. 3) Try to "Force" a different media player to play cd's by (first doing option 1) and then opening up the other media player and associating everything with that one. Like Windows Media Player. __________________ Like TFP? Donate To Keep It Alive!!

09-15-2003, 06:23 PM	#5 (permalink)
Lasereth Knight of the Old Republic Location: Winston-Salem, NC	Nice program, thanks ninety09! -Lasereth __________________ "A Darwinian attacks his theory, seeking to find flaws. An ID believer defends his theory, seeking to conceal flaws." -Roger Ebert

09-15-2003, 10:00 PM	#8 (permalink)
drawerfixer Stonerific Location: Colorado	Quicktime>Windows Media Player> Real Player I wish they would get rid of Real, and even WMV. __________________ They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

09-15-2003, 11:33 PM	#9 (permalink)
Batman976 is you wicked? Location: I live in a giant bucket.	Man, I think I'm the only person left alive who still likes and uses real player regularly. I enjoy my cartoons in real format. File size stays nice and small. Who needs a 30 minute cartoon to be 300mb anyway? I don't have that kind of hard drive space anymore. (Perhaps I should delete most of my mp3s. I don't listen to that many of them anyway.) __________________ The following statement is true. The preceding statement was false.

09-15-2003, 06:09 PM	#4 (permalink)
Frozen North Insane Location: Alaska	Heh, just went into RP to see what settings you'd need to change and I found that I've somehow managed to completely avoid using RP since I bought my computer 2 months ago. Anyways, looks like meanSpleen took care of you in the meantime.

09-15-2003, 06:50 PM	#6 (permalink)
Stare At The Sun Eh? Location: Somewhere over the rainbow	Man i hate realplayer, im suprised people still use it...

09-15-2003, 08:39 PM	#7 (permalink)
zero2 Junkie	I think you can use tweak UI to set program defaults

09-16-2003, 12:19 AM	#10 (permalink)
Hanabal Insane Location: Auckland	short answer to above question, yes Get real alternative if you use real movies, cause real player is full of ads, spyware etc. its #2 on the all time worst programs to install, and bonzai buddy is #3 __________________ I am Hanabal, Phear my elephants

09-16-2003, 02:05 PM	#11 (permalink)
dnd Psycho Location: London...no longer a student	why not explore the dvd drive and then right click on the file and "open with..." what ever program u want to play the music in? __________________ "Never underestimate a dumb question"-- Brandon Boyd

09-16-2003, 06:21 PM	#12 (permalink)
Jeff And we'll all float on ok... Location: Iowa City	I've got a sweet little thing that plays all Real files through Winamp. __________________ For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. --Charles Bukowski

09-16-2003, 06:24 PM	#13 (permalink)
meff Vanishing, like I do.. Location: Austin, TX	Eh.. RP is shit even under Linux. Though if you grab the RP libraries mplayer can play it's files.. I, too, am surprised RP is still in use today, because it sucks soo horridly __________________ Toy-like people make me boy-like.