Status Bar

The Status Bar is your connection information center. Find out at a glance everything from the health of your connection to clip status.

The information is passed to you through both text and icons:
(pictured below as they appear on your Status bar left to right)

		Initially, you will see the word Connecting and the timer while RealPlayer finds and connects to the content site.
		During buffering you will see a timer icon indicating that action is taking place, but not yet finished, the word Buffering... and a gauge will also be displayed to let you know how much of the buffering has been completed.
		Status of the clip (Play, Stop, Pause)
		Stream bandwidth in Kbps (kilobits/sec).
		When you are accessing any clip that utilizes the new G2 technologies, this status light will appear. The indicator is overridden by several higher priority messages (for example, Mute)
		Net Health. Your experience is only as good as your connection. Green represents a good connection, Yellow represents minimal information loss, Red tells you that there is severe information loss and that rebuffering is necessary. Rebuffering causes a short pause in playback.
		SureStream indicator. If your connection slows down due to traffic or line-noise, and the clip you are playing has been created with the new G2 technology, you may see yellow arrows indicating that the clip is ‘downshifting’ to a lower bitrate so you won’t have to re-buffer. As the connection improves or if the connection is better than expected you will see green arrows indicating an ‘upshift’ in the bitrate.
		When the Mute button is depressed, this indicator will appear. Click the speaker icon again to return volume to normal.
		Live clip (for example, a radio station) or Time played/Time remaining