Welcome to RealPlayer 7 Basic by RealNetworks. RealPlayer gives you quality, "one-button" access to the news and entertainment that you want to experience.
Using RealPlayer, you can listen to and view thousands of hours of live and pre-recorded clips, including sporting events, live radio stations, news, interviews, music, and lectures. RealPlayer allows you to save your favorite locations quickly and easily, scan for new stations, even to share presets with your friends.
RealPlayer retrieves audio, video, text, animation and other media to your desktop faster by using streaming technology.
A Clip is a complete presentation. If there is more than one component in a clip (e.g., audio and video) then it made up of multiple streams.
Each individual stream carries specific information about an element in the clip. One stream carries the audio elements, one the visual, one the text, etc. RealPlayer takes each of these streams and synchronizes them so that when the reporter appearing in your Display Panel opens her mouth the appropriate words come out.
Servers on the Internet store media files. You access them by clicking a link on a browser page, or by going to a page that has the clip automatically set to launch for you. The media files, or clips, you play are specially created so that they come to your desktop in much smaller pieces that are ready to be used. Because of this, you don't have to wait for a whole video file, for instance, to be downloaded before you get to begin to enjoy it. With RealPlayer, the video plays as your Player receives the information.
Different media files require different components, or plug-ins, to be played. RealNetworks is constantly adding new components to the Player. If you attempt to play a file that requires a new component, RealPlayer will inform you and offer to install the new component from RealNetworks' own servers if one is available.
