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It seems mighty unfair that VLC media player can play so many things, and yet something that easily plays over Media Player Classic using Real Alternative it cannot do. I don't understand 1/10 of the things VLC can do or what half of the files it can play are even for. I know Real Player is no longe...

I am still unable to get it to work, despite using your nightly build for 26 Mar 2012. I get the following error. "Session failed: The requested RTSP session could not be established. Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'rtsp://www.otr.net/28.8/jbny - The Jack Benny Show/j...

Last week I uninstalled Real Alternative and found that it took my Media Player Classic with it. I then discovered that VideoLAN could play all of the same files that MPC did and without needing to install extra codecs. I decided then not to reinstall MPC and just use VLC instead. Everything was goi...