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To: sea_urchin who wrote (14196)	1/24/2007 8:17:41 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

OT" I still think the RealPlayer should be able to handle those long delayes better than the (lousy) microsoft mediaplayer. Note, RealPlayer has much better functionality in "changing gear", falling down to a lower speed, etc, but it might also cause weird "start-stop" behaviour) That is, the only 500ms long ping-times I have handled are through our mobile network. Mobile networks easily get similar (satellite) delays, but I only struggled with "them" in the early 90s. THe "virus" features of the RealPlayer is mostly due to - the Relaplayer and the Mediaplayer "competes" on playing, by default, non-realplayer files (disable all but rm,ram,ra files for RealPlayer when installing) - same thing with using "directX", only one application can use DirectX in Windows without severe strange crashes. In realplayer, lower the "video card and sound car compatibility" to medium or low, tools->hardware->etc. - additionally, there are those old things about RealPlayer "spying" on you, they already got sued and corrected their "behaviour". Note that the lon ping-times are only a matter of "live streams", the ones archived (only avilable in realvideo for C-SPAN) should not depend on that. Instead, RealPlayer have this great "turbo" mode, which means that it downlaods the (archived) file as fast as possible. That is, one can "get" an hour of program in 5-15-30 minutes, buffered, and quickly skip forwards and backwards (note the additional 12 hour buffering, "time shift" feature of RealPlayer) However, I too had some weird "start-stop" problems while wathing C-SPAN _live_ many years ago. That is, when using the Tools->playback_statistics "it" went double-triple speed for a second, then nothing for the next second. I believe I solved that by setting the RealPlayer max speed to 64kbps (kbitps, not kBYTEps) in Tools->Preferences->Connection. However, maybe something else happened at that same time?? (this was when internet connections were mostly tweaked for max 56kbps and not higher, C-SPAN streamed at 128kbps, 13KBYTEps) Ilmarinen. Note, Realplayer, or actually the server doing the _LIVE_ stream, this is mainly a question of when watching a live stream, has these great thingies to adapt the "stream" to lower or higher speed connections. However, that function can cause "unintended consequences", just like Bush...