Yeah, Real media is real awful, but the player itself is far better than that Windows Media Player for Mac. The RealPlayer interface is a bit friendlier than Microsoft's WiMP. Plus, RealPlayer doesn't completely freeze up when moving the window or clicking a menu. You'd think it must take a team of super-geniuses to get proper threading in a media app...
True! Real is getting better but it's too late, and as was pointed out, Real "media" itself is a joke. NOTHING can touch QT's quality. I always wondered why retards on the Net encode movies in "DivX" or ".avi/.asf" for WiMP. It looks so ridiculously bad compared to anything after QT 4!
<strong>Your loss! RealOne Player is really a great app compared to RealPlayer 8.</strong><hr></blockquote>
No doubt. But it's not just the Real software I object to. It's the Real ethos. Or is it the ethos of sites that choose to use Real? Hmm. Whatever, I don't like it.
<strong>Quicktime can't handle .rm or .ra files can it? I remember some sort of news like that a while ago...</strong><hr></blockquote>No, this has never been true. QuickTime can not play Real media files.
<strong>I like realone player. Its free and it allows me to play .rm files. Wats not to like about free stuff
Its a different story if i have to pay though.</strong><hr></blockquote>
while real player costs nothing, it is not <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html"; target="_blank">free</a>. the reason no other program can handle .rm's or .ra's is because Real has a closed and proprietary format for their "real" media. but, so long as retards and other stupid people keep making .rm files, we'll be forced to use RealOne to play them.
while real player costs nothing, it is not <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html"; target="_blank">free</a>. the reason no other program can handle .rm's or .ra's is because Real has a closed and proprietary format for their "real" media. but, so long as retards and other stupid people keep making .rm files, we'll be forced to use RealOne to play them.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I agree. In an ideal world, all movie files will be in .mov format!
while real player costs nothing, it is not <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html"; target="_blank">free</a>. the reason no other program can handle .rm's or .ra's is because Real has a closed and proprietary format for their "real" media. but, so long as retards and other stupid people keep making .rm files, we'll be forced to use RealOne to play them.</strong><hr></blockquote>
The news may not have spread outside the programmer/geek community but real have started open source-ing most of their code under the name Helix. It's not all being released and it's not Free Software Foundation 'free' but most of it is OSI certified open-source. Definately on a par with Quicktime for openness, and looks likely to catapult Ogg Vorbis into the mainstream of streaming.
bottom line: you will soon be able to get an ad-free, spyware-removed, souped up, free (as in beer), open (as in source) realplayer for OS X in the same vein as Mozilla vs Netscape.
Real isn't open-sourcing the most critical part, the codecs. Those will still be binary only. Sorta like the NVidia Linux/FreeBSD drivers, which have an open-source shim and a binary-only component.
RealOne is a really well-done app and my source says they haven't added the spyware yet. (Be sure to turn off cookies and auto-update in the preferences.)
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<strong>I wouldn't let that wretched piece of flea-ridden filth anywhere near my Macintosh.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Your loss! RealOne Player is really a great app compared to RealPlayer 8.
<strong>Your loss! RealOne Player is really a great app compared to RealPlayer 8.</strong><hr></blockquote>
No doubt. But it's not just the Real software I object to. It's the Real ethos. Or is it the ethos of sites that choose to use Real? Hmm. Whatever, I don't like it.
so belle, tell us how you really feel....
<strong>Quicktime can't handle .rm or .ra files can it? I remember some sort of news like that a while ago...</strong><hr></blockquote>No, this has never been true. QuickTime can not play Real media files.
Its a different story if i have to pay though.
<strong>I like realone player. Its free and it allows me to play .rm files. Wats not to like about free stuff
Its a different story if i have to pay though.</strong><hr></blockquote>
while real player costs nothing, it is not <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html"; target="_blank">free</a>. the reason no other program can handle .rm's or .ra's is because Real has a closed and proprietary format for their "real" media. but, so long as retards and other stupid people keep making .rm files, we'll be forced to use RealOne to play them.
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while real player costs nothing, it is not <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html"; target="_blank">free</a>. the reason no other program can handle .rm's or .ra's is because Real has a closed and proprietary format for their "real" media. but, so long as retards and other stupid people keep making .rm files, we'll be forced to use RealOne to play them.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I agree. In an ideal world, all movie files will be in .mov format!
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while real player costs nothing, it is not <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html"; target="_blank">free</a>. the reason no other program can handle .rm's or .ra's is because Real has a closed and proprietary format for their "real" media. but, so long as retards and other stupid people keep making .rm files, we'll be forced to use RealOne to play them.</strong><hr></blockquote>
The news may not have spread outside the programmer/geek community but real have started open source-ing most of their code under the name Helix. It's not all being released and it's not Free Software Foundation 'free' but most of it is OSI certified open-source. Definately on a par with Quicktime for openness, and looks likely to catapult Ogg Vorbis into the mainstream of streaming.
read more at <a href="https://www.helixcommunity.org/"; target="_blank">https://www.helixcommunity.org/</a>;
bottom line: you will soon be able to get an ad-free, spyware-removed, souped up, free (as in beer), open (as in source) realplayer for OS X in the same vein as Mozilla vs Netscape.
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<strong>It's mostly for porn these days, right? I haven't come across a .rm file in a very long time.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Right. It's a necessary evil in that regard. I even have a windows media file that I wouldn't want to lose...
I think the future belongs to MPEG-4, though.
radiohead are doing a preview tonight via the web and realplayer only and i want to grab it.
of course this is highly dodgy. you don't know me. these are not the droids you are looking for...