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RealOne Player for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the it-is-about-time dept.

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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  1. RealCrap by billcopc · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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  2. Fire the Development Team by Dave9876 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    OSX has been out for what? close to 2 years? It has taken that long for Real to release a version of their player that doesn't require us to load it in classic, and it's still only Beta quality (or probably closer to pre-alpha quality, but, then again, they never get any better than that). I'm guessing it'll blow donkey balls just as much as previous versions.

    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).

  3. One less reason to use Classic by superflippy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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