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RealOne Player for Mac OS X
JakiChan writes "Finally Mac OS X users can view stunning RealAudio and RealVideo streams. OmniWeb doesn't seem to like it, but IE and Moz appear to play embedded streams just fine." Be careful, it's a beta.
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i would think that realmedia had passed on to the land of obsolete, crashing, ugly, software by now... can't they just give up?
oh well. let's give it a go, i guess...
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Any speed advantage in the compression algorithms is unfortunately negated by the clunkiness, bugginess and general cancerware-infectedness of the player.
Finally Mac OS X users can view stunning RealAudio and RealVideo streams
That's one hell of an oxymoron.
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this must be some new usage of the word that I was not previously aware of.
That was classic intercourse!
Oh, please. Real is not "stunning," and their software is annoying.
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
Before you mod me down as flamebait, just remember the last time you used Real. Didn't it just suck goats ? RealMedia is a flaky closed format whose only strength is low cpu usage. They never released a proper codec, instead forcing their retarded annoying player down users' throats. Real's time has passed, today's video of choice is DivX or even just good old Mpeg-1.
And if you've even tried the RealOne player, it's the most intrusive player they've ever created. If anything, this is BAD news.
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why does anybody think they could need this crap-o player? I bet you can't even find the download link. Real should just bag it and go make junk for windoze. All these closed formats are a big pain in the ass. wtf is wrong with standards? Just stick with .mpg and live with it.
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I hope it works as well as the 'Bomb app' on the Developer tools CD.
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Bah, what a load of shit. Now if only half of my Futurama collection (note: I didn't encode it) wasn't in realvideo format, or if there was some easy way to convert them to a *SANE* format (read. doesn't require a fucked up media player full of spyware and advertising).
Now, if they had a decent dev team, it might have been out there a just after OSX was released, and it might have become stable (dreaming), and it might have evolved into a DECENT format (impossible).
I know that Real video is terrible quality, and their pop-up ads are annoying, but I personally am thrilled by this announcement. You see, I am a Survivor junkie, and all the video from the show on the CBS web site is in Real format. Next season, I can watch clips of Bickering Idiots in Paradise without firing up IE for Classic, and that makes me and my Finder happy. Hey, at least it's not Windows Media Player.
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I must say I was pleasantly surprised at the install. It's a single file you can drop into the Apps folder (like all OS X apps should be, dammit!). I was expecting the worst... Thumbs up for that at least. Doesn't try to take over every extension like on the PC either.
about this player
.RM as a RealOne file extension!
downsides:
The RM format continues to blow
upsides:
- full screen playback is smooth
- skipping around the file (to different times) is perfectly smooth, snapping there instantly, rather than trying to rebuffer the whole damn file
- no ads (at least in the beta)
- doesn't try to hijack all your file formats... i actually had to tell Finder to use
- no other crap all over the place, its JUST the RealOne player
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Like it or not, there are a lot of websites that use
Real exclusively. For example MLB. I love to listen to baseball games and now I can without using the flacky classic player. Plus this version is great: a single file, no installing required, no ads, and it is very fast. I have been cursing Real for the last two years, now they have earned a BJ, line up and lets get "Real"
I've dowloaded and installed the RealOne player on my PowerBook, and it's working just fine. I am glad Real is working on an OSX native version of the player. Like it or not, real audio content is far more ubiquitous than any other format out there. The quicktime player is nice, but it's useless when I go to www.betalounge.com. I love iTunes, but it's useless for most of what's on www.npr.org. Now, when Photoshop Elements gets released later this year I will have all the OSX apps I want and can afford.
Considering what I've seen of RealPlayer in the past on classic MacOS and Windows, I was VERY surprised to see a clean, minimalist interface that rival's QuickTime's, not to mention WMP for X. Those annoying 'channels' are gone, there's no button to press for a Pro version(admittedly, there isn't one right now), and it actually launches pretty quick. It's a single, native application that you can drag wherever you want it, and there's no .DLL's, like the Classic version.
Admittedly, I usually use RealPlayer very little; song previews on Amazon and the odd video file on LimeWire are usually it. But the experience is so improved, that I won't hesitate to use it on other web sites.
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Have to agree. Most of the news sites I visit use Real and little else. (The CBC abandoned QuickTime a while ago, the swine.)
... or, worse, WMP. Without OS X tools for generating those formats, I'm still stuck with OS 9 on my system for the foreseeable.
And beta or not, it's playing very nicely with the other children. The frame rate is quite nice on this old Wallstreet, and the sound quality is fine. (Good enough that a barking dog in one news story got my black lab yapping for a good five minutes, anyway.)
My real beef is that most of the clients I develop for insist on it
I very much prefer my Quicktime player, but this Real beta opens a lot of content to OS X users.
At least Real is nice enough to support most OS platforms. That's more than I can say for Brand M and Brand A, which ignore Linux.
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Go and check Realvideo 9, be ashamed... be VERY ashamed.
Especially check 56K speed demos...
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