Brief Hands-On Report: RealPlayer 11.0 Beta Build 631 is Out

Real Networks released RealPlayer 11.0 beta (Build 631) for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later. RealPlayer is Real Networks' media player. It is available for download free from this Real Networks Web page or from MacUpdate.com. Build 631 has numerous bug fixes and some new features:

• New RealPlayer Downloader lets you download Flash Video files from Safari or FireFox browsers.
  
• Playback of Flash Videos
  
• Playback of Windows Media content (such as .wmv and .wma files)
  
• PerfectPlay (with LivePause) feature added
  
• PlayNow feature added
  
• Playlist window added

We have been using RealPlayer 10.1.0 with no apparent problems but it will be handy to have another player besides Flip4Mac that can play .wmv and .wma files. We downloaded, installed and tried 11.0 beta with no problems. [Bill Fox & Dana Baggett]