11 Facts About RealPlayer

RealPlayer, formerly RealAudio Player, RealOne Player and RealPlayer G2, is a cross-platform media player app, developed by RealNetworks.

RealPlayer is available for other operating systems; Linux, Unix, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian versions have been released.

RealPlayer 11 was released for Microsoft Windows in November 2007 and for Mac OS X in May 2008.

RealPlayer was initially accessed by many users as a plugin to watch streaming video or listen to streaming audio; but in the early 21st century, Adobe Flash and subsequently HTML5 video became preferred options for this purpose.

Features of RealPlayer include a video download utility, a web browser, visualizations, equalizer and video controls (including Crossfade and Gapless playback in RealPlayer Plus), recording audio, CD ripping, and a media converter which allows converting files to a variety of common audio and video formats.

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RealPlayer SP includes audio CD burning capabilities, DVR-style playback buffering, multimedia search, Internet radio, a jukebox-style file library, an embedded web browser, and the ability to convert and transfer media to a wide range of devices.

Since version 11, RealPlayer SP has gained Flash Video support, DVD, SVCD, VCD burning, and video recording (DRM is supported).

Since the release of version 10 on January 7, 2004, RealPlayer had become much more closely integrated with macOS including features such as:.

Android version of RealPlayer is currently available as a free download from the Google Play Store.

Symbian version of RealPlayer allows mobile phones to play Real Audio, Real Video, MP3, 3GP, AMR, and other media formats.

Past versions of RealPlayer have been criticized for containing adware and spyware.