I don't much care for 'alternative' stuff in general. It does say in the beginning of the installation of Real Alternative that it is recommended to uninstall Real Player. Maybe I should have installed a bit more of it, but I didn't want to clash with Real Player. But as I said, I did not install the Real ALternative PLayer itself, only the part pertaining to DirectShow. Until I installed that bit of Real Alternative the conversion did not work. Only following instructions (I hope ), not pretending to know what I'm doing :D Real Alternative is required in order to get the DirectShow filters. If you already have RealPlayer, why was it necessary to install Real Alternative?Īlso, is your DirectX up to date?DirectX is up to date. Recently defragged also, but I could do another if it matters, though I doubt it. Runs ok, mostly, apart from the occasional WIndows Explorer crapout on hovering over some media files - and I'm used to it anyway, LOL! Running on an oldish :ĥ12MB ram, 120GB HD with about 30GB free and 8MB cache. I have dMC r 11, registered, PowerPAck and all, a slew of codecs. I am running Windows 2000 Pro with the latest SP (4 I thnk) and all other current updates. I only installed once RA & DS once, used it, and then uninstalled. I don't want to uninstall Real Player, but I also don't want to get that GetPopUpInfo error. I'd like to have the DirectShow codec, so I supose I need Real Alternative. For the GetPupUpInfo error the window doesn't close. I don't know if this is a similar problem like the GetPopUpInfo error I was getting after the Real Alternative/DirectShow install, but the message is not the same and the WIndows Explorerr window actually closes unceremoniously at that time. Not real media files or flac or others that WMP cannot play.

I also occasionally experience (and have had this for a long time) a Windows Explorer error when hovering (but maybe pressing the button a bit, almost clicking on the file) over other media files, usually those associated with WMP (which is all those it can play for me in any case, so most everything - wav, mp3, etc.). what should I conclude? which one is buggy? To get rid of that error I uninstalled Real Alternative and the dBpowerAMP DirectShow codec. Prior to insatlling the DirectShow codec and that pert of Real ALterantive which I did insdtall, I didn't have that error.Ĭonversion through dMC worked fine and fast, with no error.

rm (maybe other real media as well, but I didn't try others). Right after installing this stuff, I experienced for the first time ever the famous error 'GetPopUpInfo has generated errors.' while hovering for just a fraction of a second over a real media file. I prefer to keep Real Player as the main player for Real Media anyway. In any case, I didn't want the codecs from Real Alternative to overwrite other codecs I may have which I know work. I only installed the portion dealing with DirectShow, not the player part, nor the real media codecs that come with it, which I already have - or I think they are the same ones. I downloaded and Installed the DirectSHow codec. I had a real media (.rm) file which required DirectShow in order to be able to convert it. Ok, I don't know which one is the culprit, but here is what happened.

Real alternative codec