![]() ![]() It works on iOS 5 and later, Android 4 and later, and on Windows 7 and 8. I did the same with fresh videos captured on an iPhone 5 and the Android phone, a Nexus 4. I also could stream it through my TV on a special RealPlayer Cloud channel via a Roku box. I streamed it or downloaded it, via the cloud or my home network, to a PC, an iPhone, an iPad, a Web browser on a Mac and an Android phone. I easily uploaded to RealPlayer Cloud a video of my wife and son dancing at his wedding a few years ago. Real’s new iOS apps (the ones for iPhone and iPad) worked well, but I ran into trouble with the Android version, though the company has fixed much of that problem. Real’s mobile apps and website were better designed and easier to use than its old-looking Windows app. I’ve been testing RealPlayer Cloud on all these devices and despite some hitches, found it performs as advertised. A Mac app is in the works, but meanwhile it can work, with some limitations, in a Web browser on a Mac (or any device with a browser). The service works using new or updated Real apps on Android devices, iPhones, iPads, Windows PCs and Roku TV set-top boxes. Real boasts that its new service reformats videos to best suit the device to which you stream or download them, taking into account device type, screen size, bandwidth and storage space. It also has built-in playback and sharing of your friends’ Facebook videos. ![]() It lets users of many different devices store their videos online stream or download them share them with others (even if the recipients lack Real’s software) and move videos easily among devices on the same network. Now, RealNetworks, the media-software company whose last major product launch was in 2008, is aiming to make video storage, portability and sharing a no-brainer with a new service called RealPlayer Cloud. All paid plans give you access to the company’s $50, Windows-only RealPlayer Plus while your subscription is active, and adds the abilities to burn HD videos, clean up your music library, and more.With RealPlayer Cloud, an iPhone can share videos with an Android phone, and vice versa. Real offers three paid tiers as well: Silver is $5 a month or $49 a year, and provides 25GB of storage Gold costs $10 a month or $100 a year for 100GB and Pro runs $30 a month or $300 a year for 300GB of storage. ![]() When you sign up for a free account, you get 2GB of source file storage, which Real says equates to 3 to 4 hours of SD video, or about 1 hour of HD video. Devices on the same network talk to each other over Wi-Fi. The system stores multiple copies of the source file to account for device type, screen size, bandwidth, and device storage. RealPlayer Cloud accepts a variety of video formats and containers, including FLV (Flash), WMV (Windows Media), MKV (Matroska), DivX, Xvid, Mov, AVI, and MP4. All of them were available to watch quickly and played well on multiple devices. To test it out, I uploaded several MP4 videos, as well as one that I shot on a Moto X smartphone using the RealPlayer Cloud Android app. Real says it foresees, “introducing technological advances that will allow RealPlayer to recognize the origin of the video (a smartphone versus a Hollywood production) and adjust the sharing function accordingly” but that’s not the case right now. ![]() You can generally share videos that are as long as 15 minutes each-a restriction basically meant to prevent you from sharing TV show and movies-but there’s no time limit for videos shot on a mobile device. ![]()
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