Latest RealPlayer Rocks

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on November 15

I’ve been playing with RealPlayer 11 on my Mac for a few days, and I like what I see. (Get it here.) It comes with a fancy new download feature that lets grab videos of pretty much any time from YouTube and other video sites and save them to your hard drive. I just grabbed a couple of old Krazy Kat cartoons. When your Web browser sees a flash video, be it a YouTube share, or something else, it flags it for possible download, and then saves it in a dedicated download folder. Curiously, I’ve noticed that these downloads are linked to VLC, the open source video app, and not to RealPlayer. They play perfectly well in both. Either way, now you can grab and keep copies of your favorite YouTube clips. There are other ways to do it, through Vixy or Movavi for instance. But RealPlayer sure has made it easy.

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