*RealPlayer* used to be an essential application for streaming media content
from the web, but you can live without it today. It is still a fully featured
media player however, with library, sharing, converting and downloading
features. It is indeed bloated and often intrusive but *RealPlayer* has a lot
of functionality - it can do a hell of a lot from streaming radio and video
to burning CD's but it's often slow and cumbersome. In this latest release of
RealPlayer, there is an *included conversion program* with a bunch of
different devices it can re-encode video for. This is really handy if you
want to take some videos on your portable device. Conversions in RealPlayer
take a while, so be patient. The most recent incarnation RealPlayer SP has
done much to solve stability and streaming problems and also includes ways to
share videos on mobile devices as well as download videos that are absent
from RealPlayer. There's also a handy *integrated RealPlayer Downloader* for
downloading RealPlayer clips for viewing later or sharing with friends. In
saying this, RealPlayer isn't bad at all. It's comparable to Windows Media
Player as they both have some impressive ways of organizing your music and
for me the best feature is the CD burner which is one of the easiest burners
I've ever used. *RealPlayer is a bit of a bloated media player, which is
slower and less user friendly than the competition but includes handy
downloading and conversion features that may benefit some users.*Download
*RealPlayer 12.0.0 1725* in Softonic
