Tuesday, June 26th 2007

Realplayer Reels-in Web Video

A single click is all the effort a user needs to record and download video from tens-of-thousands of web sites with the new Realplayer. After install, a 'download-this' button briefly appears in the browser when playing video content. Video can then be downloaded in the background allowing users to continue surfing other web sites and it even supports multiple downloads. Realplayer can capture the most popular video format however it automatically recognizes and will not download video content protected by DRM. The program can be downloaded for free at www.realplayer.com
Source: PRNewswire
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27 Comments on Realplayer Reels-in Web Video

#1
GJSNeptune
Checking brain for interest and excitement....buffering....buffering....
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#2
Dark Ride
Told you people aren't interested it this, but oh well ... ;)
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#3
Easy Rhino
Linux Advocate
GJSNeptuneChecking brain for interest and excitement....buffering....buffering....
lmao!
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#4
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
I just cant get into real player as a media player. I know it has some interesting features, but to me, its just a hassle.
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#5
Conti027
i use to love realplayer but once i got Vista i didnt get it back
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#6
GJSNeptune
I uninstall it on any machine I sit at. Family, friends, etc.
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#7
russianboy
realplayer is pointless & filled w/ ads
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#8
nora.e
I don't like realplayer either, Surprizing, the one I like best for a media player is the add on program I got on the drivers disk that came with my LG dvd-rw
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#9
Easy Rhino
Linux Advocate
haha as i figured everyone hates realplayer. which is why i posted this news. this is their last big push and once this fails no more realplayer! (probably...and only to be replaced by another crappy media format/player)
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#10
GJSNeptune
Naw, someone will buy them and make it unbearably worse, if possible.
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#11
Jonnycat
GJSNeptuneNaw, someone will buy them and make it unbearably worse, if possible.
Last time I worked on a computer using AOHell, RealPlayer was being called "The preferred player for AOL".
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#13
GJSNeptune
Winamp5 (only because Winamp3 starts to bug out after 5,000 songs :D).

And the MMD3 skin horizontal.
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#14
Steevo
"Back in the late 90s, everyone used Real Player. Then those cocks at Real Network got greedy, and tried to get their application to take over your entire PC, and people stopped using it. Same thing is happening with Quicktime now. You can't install Quicktime anymore unless you download bullshit iTunes. This section was supposed to be longer, but I couldn't even install iTunes so I could bitch about it. Not that I could have used it for what I wanted to anyway:"





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The same way I feel about realplayer. The dancing sheep was cool in the 90's and all, but since then it has been shit. Besides, have people become so lazy as to foret get how to use a proper view source? Half my shit is "protected" that I use wget to copy from the sites main directory. Or just copy, paste and download.
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#16
Nemesis881
russianboywmp11 is nice
the vista one pwns.
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#17
wazzledoozle
I'd still take RealCrap video over some bullshit flash-encoded video that looks like its made out of moving, colored blocks. (I'm looking at you, Youtube!)
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#18
Wile E
Power User
I also hate Real Player. I use the Real Alternative codecs with Zoom Media Player instead. Same with Quicktime, although Quicktime isn't nearly as bad as it used to be.
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#19
russianboy
Is their a way to get those pesky .rm .ram etc. files to be played on WMP?
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#20
infrared
you have to convert them. There are a few .rm to .wmp converters about, but not many are free. :(
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#21
Grings
my windows media player plays rm, mov, and just about everything else, i think real alternative made it start playing them (or k-lite codec pack) either way, they do play on it without conversion
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#22
infrared
ooo, thanks. Didn't know that.
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#23
Darkrealms
I always hated the .rm files (the only thing they have going for them is how small they are). For some reason they corrupted much easier in file transfers. I've put Real Player and Quicktime on the same level for a while. Both are a pain and I don't like either format.
wazzledoozle try "Total Video Player" /Recorder. No improvement in quality but much easier to play and they can be saved.
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#24
Wile E
Power User
russianboyIs their a way to get those pesky .rm .ram etc. files to be played on WMP?
Real alternative. The lite version is just the codecs, while the normal version comes with Media Player Classic.

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#25
Dark Ride
Don't post any download links to Real Alternative !

Real Alternative:
According to RealNetworks, this codec pack is illegal, because RealMedia codecs are copyrighted by RealNetworks, and were not licensed by KL Software. According to Karl Lillevold of RealNetworks, KL Software simply re-packages RealNetworks' own DLLs and distributes them without permission.
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