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I'm in a religion class this semester online and the professor asks us to download realplayer to view the weekly lectures. The problem is I hate realplayer and I have downloaded and installed it the past couple days and I have not been able to get it to work with the lecture. It has been saying some shit like "Connection to server cannot be established" it is pissing me off.

I want to know if there is any way to get this shit working, or if I can download some other video player that can work for this damn lecture that I can watch it with.
 
Bitanator said:
I'm in a religion class this semester online and the professor asks us to download realplayer to view the weekly lectures. The problem is I hate realplayer and I have downloaded and installed it the past couple days and I have not been able to get it to work with the lecture. It has been saying some shit like "Connection to server cannot be established" it is pissing me off.

I want to know if there is any way to get this shit working, or if I can download some other video player that can work for this damn lecture that I can watch it with.
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VLC?

EDIT: Yep, see above. If it's not working with VLC, maybe you can go back in time and view it through AOL 4.0.
 
The professor of a religion class wants you to use RealPlayer? This is perfect. It's like poetry.
 
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I was just as surprised as most of you, It is some shit like realtimes now and the first time I installed it I opened up firefox and it had some annoying download icon in the top of the screen that was visible watching youtube fullscreen I had trouble getting rid of so I uninstalled the thing. This is horrible and the professor is an unhelpful jackass.

helloresolven said:
VLC should support the files, https://wiki.videolan.org/RealMedia/.


It may not be RealPlayer's fault though... the server could be down.
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The other kids in the class have posted their responses so they have got the piece of shit working
 
lol wow Real Player.. blast from the past. I used to have to watch .rm fansubs with real player.. the alternative is Real Alternative, good luck. I can confirm it working back in 2003-ish lol
 
Bitanator said:
I was just as surprised as most of you, It is some shit like realtimes now and the first time I installed it I opened up firefox and it had some annoying download icon in the top of the screen that was visible watching youtube fullscreen I had trouble getting rid of so I uninstalled the thing. This is horrible and the professor is an unhelpful jackass.
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Possible spyware/malware + an arrogant dipstick of a professor who has no idea about technology = wow. Can you still drop the class?

But yeah, VLC should work.

Edit: Required class. But do you have to take it this semester? Maybe you can try again next semester and get a professor who lives in 2015 instead of 1995?
 
FlyinJ said:
The joke wrote itself
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This is a required class for transfer unfortunately

DaBargainHunta said:
Can you still drop the class?
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I need it and it is the only one offered online through my school. I really would rather not hold off taking it next semester, I'm almost finished for transfer and want to tackle it now. This professor is an idiot though. I remember hating realplayer way back in the day and never thought it would be a required now
 
Not realplayer... I feel sorry for you. I remember having trouble with it even 15 years ago...it would always buffer and error out. Hope you get it working
 
While I haven't used Real Player to watch videos in years (who even makes .rm files anymore anyway?), it had an excellent tool that allowed you to download web videos. You didn't even have to open the program; it was integrated into your browser.

Anyway, pretty much ANY player is a good Real alternative. I use VLC.
 
TemplaerDude said:
How is real player still a thing?
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My guess is the professor at one time went through the trouble of making his lectures available in that format and probably doesn't want to change them. Funny thing is we've had a pretty stable selection of video formats since then that hasn't changed too much. He just backed the wrong horse I'm guessing.
 
Okay update before you can forget about this Jumanji dice roll, downloaded VLC and got the lecture to run, this dude sounds like he is about to die from boredom, this class will undoubtedly suck sour nipples but thanks for the help GAF.
 
My partner was still using realplayer when I gave him some workout video a couple weeks back. I promptly installed VLCplayer and he never looked back.
 
What file format are the lectures in?

Anyways, I prefer Daum Potplayer as my media player. If VLC gives you any troubles you can try that.

The lectures themselves probably haven't been updated since 1999, and the professor is too damn lazy to remake it or convert it into a modern format.
 
Bitanator said:
Okay update before you can forget about this Jumanji dice roll, downloaded VLC and got the lecture to run, this dude sounds like he is about to die from boredom, this class will undoubtedly suck sour nipples but thanks for the help GAF.
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E-mail your blithering imbecile arrogant ass of a professor and inform him that VLC is what he should be recommending to his students now because it is a safer, better, more modern alternative.
 
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