Real downloader STOP WORKING ?

Hi guys

I installed real player when I first started using my mac. It used to be crazy before that I would go on any site and real downloader would start popping up with downloadable content. I would just 'x' it and it would work again and again.


Now, for some reason, the real downloader has stopped working all together, so even if I go to a flash based site and open it up manually, nothing shows up. I have uninstalled the app through finder and reinstalled couple of times but still nothing. Windows has the feature that allows you to hover over the video and a download button pops up, but that is not the case for apple.

I don't know if it is connected but I was unable to save to my divx movies folder (disk permission denied when I put in read and write in my home folder permissions) but that solved yesterday when I forced the web player to save the download cache to the desktop. Would I need a reinstall to fix the real player problem? Why does Mac OSx make things hard..

 

no one here ?

 

I wouldn't ever install Real Player on my Mac to begin with.. its usually problematic.

 

But what alternative is there to download flash videos as flash video downloader doesn't always work ?

 

I've never wanted to, or attempted to download a flash video.... maybe look for some other programs out there made to do that... Real Player might do that (I guess) but its not what it was designed for...

maybe something like this?
Flash Video Downloader 2 - Tesseract Software

 

It doesn't work as I already tried it.

UPDATE: I found a firefox add-on that does work. I guess mac people really live in an alternate universe here..

On to uninstalling real player now.

 

how so? I've seen Real player screw up Windows more often than OSX.. I'd never install that junk on any computer, no matter what the OS is.

 

I was talking about the flash downloader part. It used to be a problem on windows, but not so much on Windows 7 though this is an apple forum, right?

PS Real player is very useful for Windows though not as much as for OS X.

 

I understand no one is answering here. I am a former windows user and i know for a fact that real player is the last thing one would install on their computer. It's always been problematic and full of s**t. I remember back in the days when windows 98 was released and you had to use real player to play certain formats, it sucked even back then. It was not even good taking into account that it could play formats that other players couldn't.

I have never heard anyone recommend real player either nor have i heard anyone even giving it creds for anything, so i completely understand the mac people as well..

Just so you know why you don't get any answers, or at least that's what i think.

EDIT: Stupid auto-spelling correction head instead of heard and creeds instead of creds..

 

Sorry to be blunt, but absolutely not. There is absolutely nothing that RealPlayer offers that can't be done in a multitude of other ways. RealPlayer is also one of the most atrocious pieces of software ever written.

 

Amen to that.. Today i can't think of any reason to aquire real player, there must definitely be other better options out there and i can't see how it can be the only software that does what it does 2011-11-11 11.11:11 heh..

 

Wow I didn't even realize this topic was made by me!

Btw, I think it must be some problem with disk permissions since the new macs I bought this year have real player working fine on them.

 

Of course, Safari has the ability to download Flash videos (and any other audio/video type that the browser is loading) built right into it. So even back then there was a solution that didn't involve third party software. I have been using Safari for a while now (even back on Windows) to download YouTube 720p music videos so that I can put them in my iTunes library and sync them to my iPad/iPod.

 

How do you access that in safari?

 

Hit option+command+A and it will bring up the activity window. Just look for something that is rather large. For example, whenever I watch a 720p YouTube music video, it is normally around 40MB (assuming a 3 minute song). There will be only one file in that list with such a large file size. Hold the option key and double-click on the large file. It will begin to immediately download. It doesn't matter if you are looking at Flash videos, mpeg-4 AVC (which is what 720p and 1080p YouTube videos are), standard mpeg-4, etc. Simply locate the largest file and it will likely be the video. You can also find somewhat large files if you are on a website that streams audio files. Just keep in mind that Safari (and any other downloader that works like this) won't be able to actually download some streaming audio files due to the way the internet browser accesses them.