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RealVideos

On the boulderpages you'll find links to films. These filmps are no ordinary avis, but realvideos. To be able to look at these you need a plug-in called Realplayer. This is a program you can download from the net. Our films You can look with the RealPlayer or newer versions, at this moment available for Windows, Mac, Linux and many more operating systems. On the download-page you'll find links to two versions: the free RealPlayer (look thoroughly to find the right link!), and the RealPlayer Plus (not free so you don't want that one). Ergo, download the right version. after downloading this plugin you have to install it (for Windozers: doubleclick on the file you just downloaded).

The RealPlayer gives better quality the better your internetconnection is, so people with a cablemodem or direct acces without modem have good quality. With a normal modem you're less lucky. Usually the films are not really splendid to look at if you have not minimal 56K or ISDN.

RealPlayer G2 System required:

Windows

Minimum Computer:

Recommended Computer:

Macintosh

Minimum Computer:

Recommended Computer:

Linux

The G2-Alpha player for Linux is now available at the downloadpage at Real.com


Known problems with other software:

If you use Internet Explorer and you have also installed the Media Player, you cannot look at our realvideos! Now you have two possibilities to solve your problem:

  1. Go to control-panel, add/remove software and remove the mediaplayer!
  2. Use Netscape Communicator instead of Internet Explorer


No soundcard:

If you don't have a soundcard, you need to install an other program first , which lets your system "think" your pc-speaker is your soundcard :

On the downloadpage you'll find speak.exe, a selfexecuting zip, that contains 3 tekstfiles, a driver and setupinformation. The easiest way is to put all on a floppy and install from there.

The installation of the pc-speaker driver:

Windows 95/98:

  1. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel, doubleclick Add New Hardware.
  2. Click Next, No, Next.
  3. In Hardware Types, click Sound, Video, And Game Controllers, en next.
  4. Click Have Disk.
  5. Select the directory on the floppy that contains your files if neccesssary
  6. Click Sound Driver For PC Speaker, OK.
  7. Click Finish.
  8. If the pc asks for a restart, do so.

The Configuratien of the PC Speaker Driver:

After installing you need to configure the driver for your pc:

  1. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel, doubleclick Multimedia.
  2. In Devices/Advanced, double-click Audio Devices, "Audio for Sound Driver for PC Speaker".
  3. Click Settings.
  4. For information about adjusting settings, look in Speak.txt file
  5. Click OK until you are returned in Control Panel.

Remarks:

After installation and configuration of the driver the best performance we found by choosing the option "Enable interrupts during playback".
The PC speaker driver plays only .wav files, no .mid, .rmi, of .avi files.
The Volume and Mixer tools in Windows don't work for the PC speaker driver.


Firewall

If you look at our site at work, than you have a big chance you are behind a firewall. In that case you might cannot look at our films without doing the following things:

Configuration for RealPlayer G2 behind a firewall

If your pc is behind a firewall, and you have problems looking at films at some sites , than the firewall might not be configured to granting datatransport needed for the Realplayer.

First you'll have to find out if a firewall is reaaly causing the problem. If you find out it is indeed a firewall, than the most simple way to solve the problem is to ask the provider / webmaster granting datatransport for the RealPlayer . Befor you take the next steps, check briefly at your provider / webmaster the policy concerning the acces to the Internet.

De Auto-Configuratie method detects itself which transportmethods are available for your RealPlayer and chooses the methode with the best results concerning the quality. If you're not sure which methode to choose, click Auto Configure. Or ask the webmaster / provider which option to choose. Also you would like to know which ports you can select for the UDP and TCP.

Auto Configuration

If your configuration changes or if you lose the possibility to play video's, then run Auto-Configure:

  1. In RealPlayer, click Options, Preferences
  2. Click Transport
  3. Click "Automatically Select Best Transport"
  4. Click Auto-Configure.
  5. Click OK.

Looking videos via a Single UDP Port

RealPlayer chooses automatically the best transportmethod without any intervention. It's only needed changing this setting, if you expect problems receiving RealVideos or when your webmaster / providerdat asks you to do so.

The UDP option offers s better soundquality than TCP. RealPlayer offers also the possibilty to limit this behind a firewall to receiving UDP via een port, resulting in easier router configuration.

Configuration RealPlayer G2 to receiving UDP via a port:

  1. In RealPlayer, click View/Edit , Preferences.
  2. Click on Transport.
  3. Click Use Specific UDP Port and type the number of hte UDP port, you want to receive UDP streams. Ask your networkadministrator/provider about the correct portnumber.
  4. Click OK.

Looking at Realvideos via TCP:

  1. In RealPlayer, click Options, Preferences.
  2. Click Transport.
  3. Click Use specified transports.
  4. Click Change Settings and select the modes which you can receive data.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Click OK.

Looking at videos via HTTP:

Via the HTTP Only option allmost every Players behind a firewall can receive realvideos. The quality will be less though than with the other methodes.

  1. In RealPlayer, click Options, Preferences.
  2. Click Transport.
  3. Click Use Specified Transport.
  4. Click Specify Transports.
  5. Click the Use HTTP Only option.
  6. Click OK.


Saving realvideos on your harddisk

If you don't have the desired bandwith to look at the realvideos and you have yhe realplayer Plus G2, than you can save the films on your harddisk and start the, from there. Take care, they are big in size and consume a lot of diskspace!


Questions:

If you still have questions this faq doesn't answer, please first take a look at the service-page of real.com itself. If that still doesn't help you or if you have suggesties for this faq, please mail Jos at jos@climbing.nl.

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