For many months now, Real Player on my Apple Powerbook has been crashing out whenever I started to play any file or stream. This continued despite deleting the program and re-downloading and installing it.

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Finally, I'm pretty sure that I've found out where the problem was - a corrupted cache. Trying to empty the cache lead to another crash, but turning it off altogether has solved the problem.

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The cache does not seem to be important as my internet connection is very fast and reliable, and most of the streams I access are in the UK.