real player woes

hi,
i have a 2 year old laptop fairly fast windows 7.2 weeks prior to Xmas on a tube site my real player downloader quit working.i have uninstalled and reinstalled at least a dozen times.it will run for a day or 2 and quit again.have done nothing to my laptop prior to this starting.i have read somewhere that some sites do this by design? is this true and is this a recent thing.any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated by this computer illiterate.thank you! map47

 

I have always used real player alternative:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_real_alternative/

 

Who still uses Real player? A lot of people started to dump it & using alternatives, when they sold out to advert spam.

 

hi,thanks for the info,can this be used for downloading videos or is this just a media player?

 

hi,
i am using Internet Explorer.

 

For downloading videos I've used DVD videosoft.

http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=6621

 

hi,
thanks for the tip installed it and it works fine,but just with YOUTUBE.can it be used with other tube sites.thanks again,map47

 

hi,
i do like the DVDSOFT program but is there anyway i can use it for other tube sites besides YOUTUBE? thanks alot,map47

 

several sites listed:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/18-free-ways-to-download-any-video-off-the-internet/




you can read the cnet review:
http://download.cnet.com/Free-Studio/3000-2170_4-205258.html

 

hi,
thanks alot for the help!