Realplayer Alternative?

Does anyone know of a program for Linux that has the same use as Realplayer, like downloader, and all that jazz. Seeing as Realplayer is no longer supported for Linux. Or if someone could walk me through the download I would appreciate it. Thanks!

If you are looking for something for real formats, your best bet is the Helix archive.

https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/downloads/

You can download sources and compile it for your system. I installed the *.rpm version on my Slackware box using Slackware's rpm2tgz utility (first time I ever used it--I want my Old Time Radio!).

I also found this: http://europe.real.com/realplayer/other-versions

I downloaded the *.deb (UK English). It seems to be a valid download but I couldn't install it on the computer I was using because the package is 32-bit and the computer isn't. If you have a 32-bit machine, it's worth a look.

As regards the integrated downloads and stuff like that there, I've never had any desire to do that stuff, so someone else will have to address that question.

Links for RealPlayer11GOLD , post #7 here ...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...user-901421/#7

AFAIK Realplayer for linux doesnt support all the extra add-on junk like downloading the windows versions do.

All realplayer for linux/helix player does is play realplayer format files.

Do you know of anything I can use for downloading? I have VLC so my media player needs are met, I just want something to download videos from the web, I use minitube for youtube so thats dealt with but other videos Im not sure, any suggestions? Ive been doing some checking but I was hoping someone here could suggest a good program that theyve used or are using.

I use the Downloadhelper plugin for Firefox for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefo...ownloadhelper/

Thanks man Ill give it a look!

I tend to use wget for downloading larger files, like videos. It allows you to stop downloads and resume later, has a speed setting to prevent it using all your bandwidth and a quota if you need it.

Not to mention JDownloader, which supports a helluva lot of sites.

JDownloader is totally different.

Realplayer would let you save steams, Jdownloader is for sites like rapidshare.

Originally Posted by cascade9 JDownloader is totally different. Realplayer would let you save steams, Jdownloader is for sites like rapidshare.

Not anymore
You can grab youtube videos (even WebM ones), Vimeo streams and a lot of other similar sites are supported.

Originally Posted by cascade9 JDownloader is totally different. Realplayer would let you save steams, Jdownloader is for sites like rapidshare.

JDownloader can download Youtube videos and supports encoding to different formats. I use it sometimes to make mp3s from Youtube videos.

Wow, last time I looked jdownloader could d/l from youtube, but it was using some plugin to do that. That was a few years ago.....

Originally Posted by cascade9 Wow, last time I looked jdownloader could d/l from youtube, but it was using some plugin to do that. That was a few years ago.....

It is actually pretty easy, just set up JDownloader to watch the clipboard, then right-click on the Youtube video and select "Copy video URL". JDownloader will check the URL and give you some options which type you want to download (IIRC MP4, WebM, Flash and MP3).