Real player or Alternative ?

Hello, I have been getting info from the dmc support board. I have been advised to due certain coping/converting that I need some real player codecs.

I have real player 10 installed, which I was using to burn some wav files, but I need the codecs installed for other converting.

Does MajorGeeks have a download for Real Alternative 1.43 which appears to have all the codecs I would need.

Thanks>

 

They have everything even the kitchen sink.

 

I'm not sure about the kitchen sink, but if Halo's link is not satisfying (sp?) enough, I tend to download their full MEGA codec pack. But, that is just me.

http://www.codecguide.com/download_mega.htm

For some odd reson, MG only supports the full variation.

 

Hello Halo, thanks to you and the other's that replied

Halo had been of the dmc forum board trying to get to a place I can convert real audio files. I have been able to d/l music to my d/drive and then run them thru the dmc converter copied in wav. I have also been try to do the same with some real player audio files, but I would get the msg "unsupported media cannot burn".

I hope I am not out of place in putting the last msg from a person on the dmc support board. I trust you judgement and would appreciate you advising on which way to go.

The point is if you need to be able to convert real media files (.ra and .rm) using dMC, you have 2 choices:
1) the older decoder codecs that rely on Real Player and decode in real time (i.e. the duration of teh conversion is the same as the duraiton of the audio file).
2) the newer directshow codec and filter enabled through Real Alterantive which will allow dMC to convert .ra and .rm files fast.
The point is if you need to be able to convert real media files (.ra and .rm) using dMC, you have 2 choices:
1) the older decoder codecs that rely on Real Player and decode in real time (i.e. the duration of teh conversion is the same as the duraiton of the audio file)
2) the newer directshow codec and filter enabled through Real Alterantive which will allow dMC to convert .ra and .rm files fast.
Unfortunately things are never as simple as that. My experience has been that some real media files cannot be converted with the directshow codec but can be converted using the older real media codec afforded through Real Player - which however also requires Real player to be installed
Also some real media files cannot be decoded using the older real media codec and can be decoded using the directshow codec.
Things get a bit mroe complciated than that. It looks like you cannot easily have both Real Alterantive (minus Media Player Classic) AND Real Player installed without running into some problems - e.g. GetPupUp Info crashes for me if I have both on. or it used to crash, haven't verified again after upgrading my system to XP.
So what you should do is install the directshow codec (and .ra and .rm filters) and Real alternative from http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-ra.htm - leave out the older Real media codec for now. Follow all the steps in order, no second-guessing, as it's a bit tricky.
Use dMC to try to convert your .ra or .rm files to other audio formats (,mp3 or .wma or whatever you like). It's likely you won't have problems in general.
If you do, then it's time to use the older real media codec

Thanks