ROBK  I installed RealPlayer so I could use Radiotastic on Snow Leopard. RealPlyer 12 works quite well but it still has some bugs.

It will play flash videos for awhile. Then an hour later it will not. Apparently, Adobe's Flash Player 10 is incompatible with RealPlayer on the Mac. (see Real's knowledge base). Real's solution go back to Flash 9 (with all its security holes).

NO THANKS!!

REAL FIX -- Use QT7 and Perian to play flash videos

N.B Note -- If you are concerned about Privacy, you should disable Real cookies. See Preferences.

REALPLAYER DOWNLOAD AGENT

Real will bug you IN EACH USER ACCOUNT, whether you want to enable the download agent at logon. My recommendation is NO!! You can still run the Download Agent manually. (Look for small icon on RealPlayer Interface).

Download Agent does download the flash videos from most web sites like YouTube.

It also lets you easily convert the FLV files to a format like H264 for most portable devices like iPods and BlackBerrys.

REAL CONVERTER

The Real Converter will easily convert FLV files to many formats like H264. It will also add the files to iTunes. Very easy to use and works well.

ANNOYANCES

If you launch RealPlayer AFTER you have launched a wen browser, you will get a message:

"To Complete configuration, RealPlayer needs to quit your open web browsers"

This is misleading. It is trying to become the default media player ONLY for this session of the browser. Say LATER. All will be well. But I wish I could get rid of this message.

The Second Annoyance is RealPlayer's lack o0f support for AAC+ audio files and streams. Many Radio stations use AAC+ now. Come on REAL add this codec!!  
(Version 12.0.0)

BENUP  RealPlayer ne sert à rien, mais son téléchargeur de Flash et sont encodeur sont très pratique. Donc un bon point pour eux !  
(Version 12.0.0)

MAXITMAN  ok, I downloaded the bloody thing, which went ok, but it does not play. Am I to understand that somekind of conversion, and only as designated by real player, must be done? I mean I can not play any of the files at all??!! What is the deal, can somebody help?!!! Please  
(Version 12.0.0)

ROBERTCOOGAN  Download link above is dead, click on Visit Developer's Site to go to a valid link.  
(Version 12.0.0)

DEVILSTHING  Is it really version 12? Or is it 1.2? I am confused. BTW: The link doesn't start any download.  
(Version 12.0.0)

KATUZERO  The Full Screen Mode Can't Hide Toolbar.  
(Version 12.0.0)

LEE170  Realplayer 11.1 installs on Snow Leopard 10.6.2 but crashes on startup. Any idea when this will be fixed?  
(Version 11.1)

IGREG  I remove all traces of 11.1 and install backup of older version (11.0.1) and that older version works fine.  
(Version 11.1)

IGREG  New version still crashes on launch on intel Snow Leopard.  
(Version 11.1)

ANON BUD  This is from the Real Player Support desk:

“Our technical department is also working on to fix this issue and hope it will be fixed at the earliest. We are not in a position to declare the date, so I request you to check our Web site to know about our new updates.”  
(Version 11.1)