No RealPlayer plug-in for Safari?

[Jedi128]

Why am I not able to play media requiring a realplayer plug-in in Safari? I have downloaded RealPlayer many times. What is going on?

And on a side note, why are there so many fricken video players? Can't the whole world use quicktime and make my life easier?

 

[iGary]

Because Real Player is the whore of players.

I just got off the phone with them for the fourth time, telling them to cancel my account I stupidly signed up for a year ago and just noticed....

 

[MacSA]

Unfortunately most websites require RealPlayer to view streaming content.

 

[Mac_Freak]

Unfortunately most websites require RealPlayer to view streaming content.

yeah, but the question is: why on Earth would most websites use such player in a first place?

QuickTime rules!

 

[Applespider]

Make sure that the real plug-in is in the HD/Library/internet plug-in folder.

If you've archived and installed your system, the internet plug-in folder will have been overwritten although your real player will still be in the applications folder. Try deleting and re-installing it and you should find it works again.

 

[grobbins]

RealPlayer installs an alias to its browser plug-in in the /Library/Internet Plug-ins folder when the player is run (or in the user's ~/Library/Internet Plug-ins folder if the player is only run from a non-administrator account.) Be sure to launch the RealPlayer application once; it should be available in Safari and other browsers after that.

 

[Jedi128]

Thanks guys for the help. All I did was open RealPlayer and it worked. I guess I had just never opened RealPlayer before.......there was no reason to.

I really hate there being three main players (WMP, Real, Quicktime). Why can't we pick one (Quicktime!!) and be done with it. I hate not being able to view video becuase I don't have the right player.....

 

[grobbins]

You can use RealPlayer to view QuickTime-compatible files. It even gives full-screen playback for free, unlike QuickTime Player.