# Could somebody with RealPlayer, a decent connection and a few minutes help me out? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 10, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-somebody-with-realplayer-a-decent-connection-and-a-few-minutes-help-me-out/19144 "2000-05-10T18:27:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2000, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-somebody-with-realplayer-a-decent-connection-and-a-few-minutes-help-me-out/19144/1 "2000-05-10T18:27:58Z")
Could somebody with RealPlayer and a minute help me out? I just put up my first RealVideo and I want to know if it hangs (freezes up) on anybody. [http://www.geocities.com/gingersnap666/isky1-c.rm](http://www.geocities.com/gingersnap666/isky1-c.rm) Its just a little animation of a satellite deployment, and it looks like there was Vaseline on the camera lens due to the weird compression RealMedia does. Thanks, Inky ---
**Author:** ![Fanny\_May](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3be4f8/32.png) [@Fanny\_May](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fanny_May)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-somebody-with-realplayer-a-decent-connection-and-a-few-minutes-help-me-out/19144/2 "2000-05-10T18:41:34Z")
I think you might want to repost this at the MPSIMS forum. They usually won’t answer here unless it applies to this StraigtDope board. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-somebody-with-realplayer-a-decent-connection-and-a-few-minutes-help-me-out/19144/3 "2000-05-10T22:54:09Z")
I’ll move this to MPSIMS, in fact. No harm, no foul. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2000, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-somebody-with-realplayer-a-decent-connection-and-a-few-minutes-help-me-out/19144/4 "2000-05-10T23:24:35Z")
I Just tried it Inky, but the link’s broken. It took me to the generic “This page is unavailable–We’re sorry, but this page is currently unavailable for viewing. Please try again later, or search Yahoo! GeoCities for other pages that interest you.” ---
**Author:** ![KP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9adbd/32.png) [@KP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-somebody-with-realplayer-a-decent-connection-and-a-few-minutes-help-me-out/19144/5 "2000-05-10T23:32:04Z")
looked great to me ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2000, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-somebody-with-realplayer-a-decent-connection-and-a-few-minutes-help-me-out/19144/6 "2000-05-10T23:47:46Z")
I got: We’re sorry, but this page is currently unavailable for viewing. Please try again later, or search Yahoo! GeoCities for other pages that interest you. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2000, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-somebody-with-realplayer-a-decent-connection-and-a-few-minutes-help-me-out/19144/7 "2000-05-11T00:19:00Z")
Sorry…but I ain’t linking to anything with “666” in the URL. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2000, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-somebody-with-realplayer-a-decent-connection-and-a-few-minutes-help-me-out/19144/8 "2000-05-11T03:32:51Z")
worked fine for me. ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-somebody-with-realplayer-a-decent-connection-and-a-few-minutes-help-me-out/19144/9 "2000-05-11T03:50:47Z")
\<\<\< SORRY EVERYBODY!! \>\>\> I posted this in “About this board” because I knew it would die quickly, I didn’t want it bumped into MPSIMS. I needed the link checked because it worked fine for me, but nobody else (Turns out the browser was reading it from my cache memory, go figure). If you do actually want to see it just go to said link, put your curser in the URL line of the “page unavailable” page and hit “Enter”. Inky