Real player is eating memory like crazy

so i downloaded real player for it's app real player downloader now i find at random the damn thing is starting two proceses, both use over 90% in CPU i can shut them down but they are replaced by a third process, inactive system process it's cpu usage goes from 87 to 98 it will shift trough all the numbers between those two, but it's a hollow process since my current CPU usage is of 2% to 14%

Either your system sucks, or Real Player sucks. Have you looked at VLC?

It's Real Player that sucks, which is why I never use it.

Download RealAlternative if you need to open them. I use MPC-HC as my main media player for opening standalone files.

Those'll be background processes that open up on startup automatically probably.

quote Duncan Idaho

quote harbin91

It's Real Player that sucks, which is why I never use it.

Download RealAlternative if you need to open them. I use MPC-HC as my main media player for opening standalone files.

the catch is that i only use real player downloader, not the video reproductor, since from time to time i download musical vids and convert them to . mp3 format, but given that they still have the same issue of not being compatible adobe flash player.

cant you just use youtubetomp3.com or a similar site for something like that?

I prefer Zamzar for stuff like conversion. Just a shame it doesn't do files larger than 100mb. Wish they did a desktop program version of that.

hiigaran fire fox has video downloader, but i stopped using fire fox ages ago since it always ate up my RAM

quote Duncan Idaho

hiigaran fire fox has video downloader, but i stopped using fire fox ages ago since it always ate up my RAM

Downthemall and Flashgot both work wonders for me. You'll pull the files as the format they are, so if you want to grab a youtube video and turn it into an mp3 you'll need something else to do that. DTA and Flashgot are both Firefox extensions, should be easy googles to find. DTA is something I use more for batch downloading stuff like picture galleries or the like, Flashgot is what I use for youtube and it's look-a-likes.

I use a program called Mediacoder to switch around the filetypes when I need to, it's a pretty solid program (&free), but I feel like there's probably better out there. I've heard a lot of people love SUPER still, but it was very finicky and I just couldn't stand it.