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This week I have updated my Real Player to the latest Real Player v.11 and I am very impressed with it’s glossy look and amazing features. One of the interesting features is downloading the streaming videos on the web with one click.
In my previous posts, I explained about various tricks to download videos from YouTube, LiveLeak etc using Greasemonkey scripts. You might have also seen that there are lot of sites that help you to download the streaming videos into your system.
Now forget about all these tricks and sites, and install Real Player Version 11, which is available on the Real Player’s website here (Free Version). Get it, install it, and restart your system. Now, whenever you mouse over on a streaming content, you will see a link to download it with Real Player download manager. Without installing any script or software, now you can download videos from MySpace, Metacafe, Blip.tv, YouTube, Google Video, and almost all video streaming websites.
It has inbuilt download manager that shows you the progress of downloading and also lets you pause and resume the downloads.
Update March 15, 2009: Latest version supports Firefox 3 and Google Chrome too.
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June 7th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
v ery nicce
June 15th, 2008 at 11:34 am
It is the best
July 8th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
niceeeeeeeeeee
July 9th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
it is the best
July 28th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
i like its..but its not work on firofox 3
July 31st, 2008 at 6:43 am
@Hamid
I also feel bad that it does not support FF3. Whenever I need to download a video, i have to load the page in Internet Explore. There is a lot of discussion going on Real Player website to update the extension for Firefox 3. Hope they will update it.
August 1st, 2008 at 1:17 am
yes..me too
September 5th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I installed it, worked fine for few days and suddenly stops showing the blue window where one clicks to download videos..
any suggestions? I hesitate reinstalling as I have a subscription at the moment and fear it might get deleted.
Any help will be greatly appreciated !
September 5th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Hi GH
It is not working with Firefox 3. If you are talking about Internet Explorer, you can right click on the streaming window and you can see an option to download with real player download manager. See if it solves the problem.
October 16th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
good
October 21st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I really love realplayer download manager, but it does not show the download option in google chrome.
October 21st, 2008 at 10:09 pm
@ gopu
Thank you.
@ Ajay
Chrome is just released. We may expect it in future.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
When I download one video using the realplayer streaming video uploader, I have to restart my system in order to download a second video. I don’t know why I cannot download more than one video at each system startup. I have checked my realplayer’s settings, my internet settings. I have enough room in my system and my videocard and everything are in updated and upgraded status too. Can anybody tell me what could be wrong in this case?
Thanks for any help.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Try to do these things and see if it is of help.
1. Uninstall Real Player.
2. Restart the system.
3. Download and extract Regseeker onto your desktop.
4. Run it and select the option “Clean Registry.” Once it shows the unnecessary registry entries, select all and delete them.
5. Restart the system.
6. Now install a latest copy of Real Player.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
I installed Real Player before install Firefox, now the Download This Video Button just come out in Internet Explorer browser not in Firefox, how can I install now in my firefox??
Thanks please someone sendme a msg to rhemfur@hotmail.com
Thanks so much
November 14th, 2008 at 6:37 am
@Martins
It seems that they have updated the plug-in. Just downloaded the latest version and it has added the latest working plugin to my Firefox. Uninstall the old version or outdated v11. Also, uninstall the Real plugin in your Firefox by going to Tools>Add-ons. Go to http:///www.real.com/ and select “Basic Player” and proceed with installation. Don’t forget to closed the Firefox and IE windows before installing it.
November 16th, 2008 at 11:04 am
it’s very nice
December 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 am
i have installed real player 11 and its stand out feature of downloading videos from net was working very well with internet explorer 6 but as soon as i installed internet explorer 7 its downloading feature stopped working. suggest me what to do ????
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:53 am
You need to install the Real Player again. While installation it checks the browsers and integrates with them. Just uninstall it and install again the latest version. That should resolve the problem. If not, get back to me.
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:47 pm
naveen sir i have re installed it three times but the problem is still there.
pls suggest something more.
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
@akhil goya
Try the things given in 14th comment in the same order and see. Before installing the new version, install Firefox, it works much better than IE.
Download the installer here: http://www.naveen.info/realplayer.exe
Once you click on the file, it will get all the latest files from Real and installs the latest version.
December 4th, 2008 at 2:12 am
its not yet solved i have done what u instructed to me.
???
December 4th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I am sorry that it did not work for you. Ask the Real Community to see if they can help you: http://real.lithium.com/real/board?board.id=realplayer
I use Firefox and reinstalling the new version worked well for me. Even it is integrated into the latest version of IE.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Dear Naveen,
I’ve been a silent reader of your blog over the last few months.
Before I say something, you must visit the site http://www.makeuseof.com for valuable free technical advices and stuff.I’m a great fan of the site.
Now although, Real Media player is a good option for capturing and downloading streaming videos, it has
certain defects as described below:
1. If the online video is a lengthy one running for 14 to 18 minutes, and if you have a slow internet connection (like mine)
and a laptop (to make things worse), the real media player will take 3 to 4 hours to download
an incomplete or halfway streaming video.
2. Worse, if the connection breaks, you have to restart the online podcast from the beginning.
3. Ok. If you’re patient to wait for 30 to 40 minutes for the online video to finish playing, and start the real player to start
the download process, it will still take atleast 1 to 2 hours for the video to download.
Better Alternative
Just visit the site http://www.ieaddons.com/en/search/?browse=true&search=flash%20player%20capture
and download this software called Bytescout Movies Extractor Scout. Look at the beauty
of this simple tool:
1. Web Url: http://www.ieaddons.com/en/search/?browse=true&search=flash%20player%20capture
2. Supports Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera browser.
3. Once the online video finishes playing, these videos are automatically stored in your
Internet explorer web browser and will stay in the browser for atleast months (or even years)
4. Once you click byte scout movie extractor, you can view all the flash videos (arranged one over the other by date)
in the left pane. Then simply RIGHT CLICK the flash video and save on your hard disk without loosing video and audio clarity.
5. You must of have adobe player installed on your pc to play the .flv files. Most online
videos are in flash video format.
Dark side:
It has 30 day trial limit. If you are willing to spend $19, this software is yours.
By the way, other browser enabled flash movie capture similar to Byte Scout Movie Extractor on the same page include:
Other Addons similar to this include:
a. Flash Player extensiion
b. Flash video Downloader
c. Download Studio
d. Shock wave player
Hope you liked my ideas. Thanks for reading.
December 26th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Thanks for commenting Nivas. Streaming the whole video or downloading it into the system takes same time. Real player does not need the video to be streamed while downloading and you can even pause the downloading, so that you can resume it at a later time. Moreover, it is free. When something you can get for free, why you need to shell out the bucks. I am on 56 kbps connection and it works well for me.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Dear Naveen,
thanks for replying early and sorry for my late reply. I used to close my real player upon seeing the slow downloads and exiting the application halfway. I will now onwards use the real player for resuming stopped or broken downloads.
I’ve also made a note of the opensource download accelerator and it’s rocking on my winxp sp2. Keep up the great work!!
January 16th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Thanks once again Nivas for taking time to write your experience with my suggestion. Keep visiting as I am going to write some good tutorials on different topics and subscribe to my feed through the box on the extreme left upper corner, so that you can get all the posts directly into your inbox.
January 25th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Sorry to say, after months of enjoying RealPlayer and the Flash downloads I accumulated, I’ve lost the ability to view them. After recently updating to Flash 10, RP no longer shows the video. On my iMac where I have Flash 8 Pro installed, all my RP videos became Flash 8 files. Boy, am I disappointed. Any ideas on what happened here?
January 27th, 2009 at 6:17 am
Check if Wimpy plays it. Read: http://www.naveen.info/2007/05/19/wimpy-standalone-free-flv-player/
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 pm
its the best
February 5th, 2009 at 3:39 am
I have a tiny problem I wish you help me Naveen…
The download tab appears to me and everything is fine, but the problem is that sometimes when I “finish” watching a video and press the “Download This Video” button, it starts to download it again, instead of finishing it, cuz you know when you watch a whole video on for example YouTube and then press it, it immediately get stored in your computer…
I hope you got what I meant….
Thanks
February 5th, 2009 at 9:10 am
I thought in the same way, but it seems that RealPlayer is not catching the video from temporary Internet cache.
February 5th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Oh…. is there a solution to this issue, cuz sometimes I watch a 60 MB video, and I want to have it, then it starts to re-download that 60 MB again, that’s quite a deal for me…
Thanks
February 5th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I have not come across any solution. If I find a video good after watching few seconds, then I will start downloading it with Real Player and close the Youtube window.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:50 am
good
February 24th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Hi, ive recently discovered real player and absolutely love it. however its started to give me a few problems.
after the video is downloaded onto my realplaayer, and i start watching, it seems that realplayer stops the video before it finishes. the time at the lower rightr corner shows that the video is 3:47 / 42:15 and yet it stops and gives the option to either play again or share the link? its happened before but right near the end of a video so ive not bothered to see if theres a problem..
any ideas?
February 24th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Are you on a slow connection. Sometimes I noticed that it just downloads a part of the video and shows that it has downloaded full video.
March 5th, 2009 at 7:57 am
CRITICAL UPDATE!!!
Update ur real player!!! Added support for downloading videos on google chrome.
March 15th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
sir it is my probliem i have installed windows latest version 7 and i installed realy player 11 when i use youtube and download any video i am not watching download this video on during running video. plz help 4 times i have reinstalled real player but problem is same.
March 15th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I don’t know whether it is compatible with Windows 7 or not. Just ask in the Real Player forum here: http://real.lithium.com/real/board?board.id=realplayer
June 5th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Is there anyway to download more than 2 videos at a time?
June 6th, 2009 at 6:04 am
You can download unlimited videos at the same time using Real Player Downloader. I use it to download at least 10 videos at the same time. Open a streaming video, right click, and select “Download This Video to RealPlayer” and then open another video and repeat the process.
June 6th, 2009 at 7:53 am
When I try download more than 2 at the same time, the 3+ ones will just sit on “Waiting…” and then “Unable to download” But as soon as one of the downloads are completed the next one will start.
June 6th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
You might be on a slow connection. Just uninstall it and install once again to see if the problem persists. Use RegSeeker to clean the registry entries once you have uninstalled.
June 19th, 2009 at 1:36 am
Thanks a lot bro
But is it tru That ( You can download unlimited videos at the same time using Real Player Downloader. I use it to download at least 10 videos at the same time. Open a streaming video, right click, and select “Download This Video to RealPlayer” and then open another video and repeat the process. )
Thanks
June 20th, 2009 at 5:58 am
Yes it is. I download a lot of videos and I can vouch for that. It depends on the speed of your net connection.
June 20th, 2009 at 5:59 am
My connection is pretty fast, I’ll try reinstalling. Thanks for the speedy responses btw.
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Hi Naveen
I have been using Real Player’s this feature since quite some time and it’s really good. However, whenever the internet connection get down for a few seconds… we have to restart the download from scratch.
Is there any way, we can resume broken downloads using this tool of Real Player..?? (I hope you can imagine this torture experience – total download size is 200MB and connection gets broken at 175MB… n start all over again to complete the rest 25MB…a huge waste of time.. )
August 28th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
i have been using real player and its cool but when i tried to delete some of the videos i have downloaded using real player i was told that i needed permission to do that ,i do not understand please explain and also tell me how to delete these videos
August 28th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Have you logged in as an Administrator? XP may prevent other users from deleting the files.
August 29th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
no i am able to delete videos which are in .flv format only those videos which are in mp4 dont get deleted
September 8th, 2009 at 10:15 am
hello…
when im trying to download anything from youtube i click on “donwload this video box” but it always said “unable to download” i tried to fix it in anyway…i tried to put the proxy i tried to instal it again…i really tried anything but nothing happened…the same… “unable to download”
i really hope u can help me…thanx 4 caring..tc
September 8th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Have you read this post. http://www.naveen.info/2009/08/28/downloading-streaming-videos-got-easier-flashgot/ It is much more easier than downloading with Real Player.
September 13th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
HI All,
Please help me. When i download a movie or clips, Real player download only 10 mins of the movie. Is any one facing the same problem. Any solution?
Thanks for your quick reply
September 15th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Instead try this one: http://www.naveen.info/2009/08/28/downloading-streaming-videos-got-easier-flashgot/
October 30th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I recently installed both real player SP and the latest version of Firefox. I had no problems downloading flv. videos from the sites I visit, but recently certain sites will give me unable to download while others would download as normal. I also notice at the bottom left side of the page it would say “Error on Page”. Any suggestions ?
October 31st, 2009 at 10:50 am
Try this easy way…. http://www.naveen.info/2009/08/28/downloading-streaming-videos-got-easier-flashgot/