As the data plans for RealPlayer are not free, it would have been nice to be given a dialog confirming that I was ok with this, perhaps even letting me know where I was in using my data plan. If you tap on either a cloud-based or a computer-based video, it begins downloading the video immediately. Each video gets a helpful icon depicting whether it is from the computer's library (a Mac icon), the local library (a camera icon), or the cloud (a cloud icon). It does not attempt to figure out duplicates so my own library consists of two copies of many videos, one from my camera roll, and one scraped from Dropbox where I back up my pictures and videos on my phone. If you also run the companion Mac or PC app, both of which build your library from every video it can find on your hard drive (excluding those in iTunes, iPhoto, Aperture or iMovie libraries), then the library you view on your phone and on your PC or Mac contains every video from both sources (provided the app is running on your Mac or PC at the time, once you quit the app, the phone's library only shows items local to the phone). RealPlayer Cloud could be described as yet another video sharing app, but, unlike others, which mostly seem geared towards broadcasting videos to the world via Vimeo, YouTube, and the like, RealPlayer Cloud is also about sharing videos with specific people across multiple devices.Īfter you create an account and grant the app all of the necessary permissions to access various services on your iPhone or iPad, it automatically populates its library with every video it can find on your phone in your camera roll. I was shocked to discover that RealNetworks are not only still around but introduced (about a year ago) a new app and service: RealPlayer Cloud. Then it went out of fashion or was overtaken by others, perhaps YouTube? I honestly do not remember. Once upon a time, everyone had some version of real on their computer. I'm old enough to remember when Real Video was the only game in town for streaming video.
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