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RealPlayer to Support One-Click Video Ripping

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the easier-than-ever dept.

Aditi.Tuteja writes "RealPlayer is coming up with a free version in June which will allow one-click video ripping. This free downloadable video player will allow anyone to save and organize video files in all major formats including Flash, QuickTime, RealMedia and Window Media and will support video ripping from websites like YouTube or more. The new RealPlayer will not download or record video that is DRM-enabled."

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  1. realplayer? what's that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    seriously. who in their right mind still uses realplayer? bloatware in its worst incarnation.

  2. DownloadHelper plugin by cpuh0g · · Score: 4, Informative

    The "DownloadHelper" extension for Firefox already does this, without all the bloat and adware that RealPlayer delivers. It works great for downloading videos embedded in websites like YouTube, etc.

    1. Re:DownloadHelper plugin by illegalcortex · · Score: 3, Informative

      Try Net Transport. It usually works for me. Every once in a while you have to do a little detective work to get the right URL, though. It's even easier in FF with the FlashGot extension.

  3. Re:Big Yawn! by Xenolith · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a firefox plugin that makes this operation even more easy.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/239 0

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  4. What about OGG? by saibot834 · · Score: 5, Informative

    in all major formats including Flash, QuickTime, RealMedia and Window Media

    What about Ogg (+Vorbis/Theora)?
    Flash and Windows Media are just as bad as RealMedia. No improvement this far, in my opinion.

  5. Re:Big Yawn! by Reverberant · · Score: 3, Informative

    Safari users: use the "Activity" window (in the window menu) to find the .flv file (it's usually the largest file in a given webpage), and option-double-click the file to download it. You can play the resulting file (you may need to add the .flv extension) in QuickTime player.

  6. Re:Windows Only For Now by zlogic · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fedora used to include Helix Player as the default mp3 playimg app in Core 2 (I use Ubuntu so I don't know about later versions). And Helix is essentially an open-sourced version of RealPlayer (although some functions are missing). I'd say that Real supports Linux better than Adobe or nVidia.

  7. Re:Windows Only For Now by Angostura · · Score: 2, Informative

    I really don't understand the continuing antipathy to the basic, free version. I'm running the basic version on OS X and it is great. It lets me watch and listen to the BBC stuff I want, it integrates nicely with other apps, it installs itself cleanly and it doesn't incorporate unnecessary bling or bloat. It works well, it's unobtrusive. What's not to like now?

  8. Re:Only a matter of time... by Ash+Vince · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why bother reverse engineering an open source project you moron.

    See here: https://helixcommunity.org/

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