Real Player has the irritating habit of automatically downloading updates, codecs and plugins from within the program itself, never informing the user where (or if) these are downloaded as physical files on the hard drive. The specific version I use is RealOne Player version 2.0, which I installed over a year ago. RealOne Player allows MP3 encoding, but only up to the bitrate of 96kbps. To reach a higher bitrate requires an extra plugin, which used to be free. I have this plugin, listed under 'Help > About > Version Info' as 'RealJukebox High Bitrate MP3 Plugin 1.0.2.245'. Now the Real corporation has taken the infuriating step of making this plugin obtainable only in 'premium' versions, and therefore it cannot be downloaded anywhere on the internet. I now wish to locate this plugin so that I can transfer it on floppy disk to another machine. However, aside from being listed under 'Version Info', I cannot find any evidence of it on the hard drive. All of the plugin .dll files in the Program FilesReal directory were created at the point of initial installation, and therefore must be the default ones. Where does RealOne Player store downloaded updates/plugins? They can't simply be encrypted into the program itself. I recently installed RealPlayer on another machine and the directory appears to contain all the same files as those on the current computer, even though when opened it does not have the ability to encode good mp3 files. Where is the plugin information stored which permits RealOne Player to use higher bitrates? Thanks for any response - hope this post wasn't too longwinded...
Yeah, Real makes it hard to like them. I and others use Real Alternative, a simple program that allows Real media to play in WMP or Media Player Classic (included). Quicktime Alternative is also avail. Here is a link to the popular Radium Codec: http://www.pcrapide.com/includes/download.php?wf=4 required by Windows OS to encode at higher bitrates. Scrap the RealOne Player. You could use CDex http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ to encode MP3s, it has LAME built-in... Dunno if helpful, but there you go. Regards _X_X_X_X_X_[small]IT Technician BSc MCSA XP2500+Barton 512MB PC3200[/small]
