Talk:Real Alternative

message: Anything similar for Mac OS X? --John_Abbe 21:17, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The mplayer codec packs can be used on PowerPC and Intel.  Alternatively ffmpeg can be used for the codecs it supports.  However there's nothing analogous to the RealMedia directshow filter for Quicktime. --Mcoder 09:50, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative for [[Mac OS X]] 

message: An anonymous user placed a direct link to the RealPlayer Enterprise Edition, should it be removed considering it's commercial in nature and this article is about RealAlternative and not RealPlayer? --Edward Sandstig 16:05, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why not. - 81.179.69.230 16:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ad for RealPlayer Enterprise Edition? 

message: Anonymous users, and some new registered users are deforming the page and changing the NPOV of the article. I request you all to kindly see through the matter if the page requires reversions or not.--Anupamsr 15:12, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: The term "copyrighted" is sufficient in this article to indicate that the codecs are copyrighted by RealNetworks. --Edward Sandstig 12:47, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please stop changing "copyrighted" to "copyright-violated" 

message: given the length of its article, isn't it? --Marc Lacoste 15:38, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If only we could give more time in writing than convincing people... *sigh*-- Anupamsr|talk |contribs  10:57, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This talk page is abnormaly long 

message: I think we definitely need to some citations on that, especially since PC Magazine and CNet give positive reviews of RealPlayer.--67.168.0.155 05:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ack, I suffered from tunnel vision and missed the "before installing" portion. Thanks for the correction. :) --Edward Sandstig 22:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recommendation of software sites to install Real Alternative over RealPlayer? 

message: I have semi-protected this article for a nominal period of 1 month because people are revert warring about which site (codecnews.com or codecguide.com) is the official site for this codec. Initially I wasn't sure which was the right site, but upon examining Alexa data, I see that codecnews.com has no traffic data, compared to codecguide.com which is around the 6000th most-visited site on the internet. This clear disparity suggests that codecnews.com is a domain registered to cannibalise on the traffic to codecguide.com, and is not the official site. A check of the WHOIS data on the domain confirms that it was registered in October 2008, compared to August 2004 for codecguide.com. In light of this, and without any references in favour of codecnews.com being the "official site", I am treating any link changes to codecnews.com as spam, and reverting accordingly. If the semi-protection is ineffective to prevent this spam, I will fully protect the article from editing. - Mark 13:40, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: codecguide.com is official site. I have contacts with author of Real Alternative and I can verify that it is real author. Dzi13 20:47, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spam and revert war over "official site" 

message: I would like to include link to download location (official download mirror where Real Time author uploads new version of program)  Dzi13 20:49, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't. Downloads seem to be hosted on different locations each time I visit codecguide.com. Your attempt would just look like lying and people will undo them. (And unfortunately they are right to do so.) Just let people click three more times. It won't hurt. Fleet Command (talk) 21:24, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Download links 

message: It is very misleading not to inform that the software still exists for download and actually is maintained too. I posted this info including a link to free-codecs.com before. Never mind the discussion which site is "official". In which way is that proved by a friend of the "original author" making a post here? Now I post it without link, so that users at least have a chance to get the idea to google for it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.209.36.180 (talk) 19:15, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  It still exists and works very well