We're using the Enterprise edition, with the associated licence we had
to sign up for (free). We install it into our base builds.
<rant>
RealPlayer can, and will, take over a system, but ONLY if you let it. If
you pay attention during the install, and only allow it to associate
with Real filetypes, and then change the options afterwards to remove
the Message Centre, it will sit quietly in the background until you need
it, just like WMP does. I have been doing this for a long time, and
found no problems with it! People who say otherwise have obviously
blindly installed it by just saying yes to everything.
</rant>
Our staff and student PCs have Quicktime, RealPlayer and Media Player
all co-existing and working nicely, all with browser plugins etc.
Having said all that, I hope one day we will move to using MSIs to
deploy it.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Support issues for windows in UK HE & FE
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ferris, Robin
Sent: 20 April 2007 09:12
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [WINDOWS-UK] Realplayer alternatives and Manager
Ok in summary
- some people have managed to repackage it(and done the legal work as
well!) and it works, could we get hold of the msi\mst and relevant files
you guys used?
- some people have not had that much luck repackaging it (which is our
experience so far)- would we be able to get hold of your vbscripts and
xcacls commands
- some people are using the alternative which seems to be ok'ish
- one person had the enterprise manager (Hallam) as it seems you guys
did your home work and found out this was the only legal route at that
point in time - would you be able to let us know what the current costs
are for doing it this way please?
It seems that no one mentioned the Real Player Enterprise Edition, it's
standalone and free, you just cant manage it with out the paid for
manager.
Has any one tried to play around with this one at all, the only real
issue I can see is that because you cant control it's behaviour it
scoops up all the file associations that it wants. I can see how we
could "sort" it by putting it in an desktop image and then configuring
it as we want and that then goes through Ghost or some such scenario but
it would be nice to be able to deploy centrally and not have to tinker
too much in an image, if that makes sense.
Thanks for all the help people!
TGIF
Robin
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