RealPlayer to Support One-Click Video Ripping

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."

Comments

So it will rip "questionable" material

[Overzeetop]

...for which you're not sure whether you have permission (but isn't protected), but it still won't rip the DVD I purchased. Nice. Thanks.

DRM-enabled?

[Anonymous Coward]

"This free downloadable video player will allow anyone to save and organize an intentionally limited subset of video files ..."

There. Fixed the summary.

RealPlayer?

[suv4x4]

What the hell was that? Wasn't it a piece of ad/scam-ware that filled your desktop with crap and had misleading purchase options?

Didn't it die eons ago? I wouldn't know.

Re:RealPlayer?

[MMC Monster]

Yeah. I didn't realise they still existed. Now, when they say that the new realplayer "will not download or record video that is DRM-enabled", they surely mean that it will not play anything that is DRM-enabled. (Because they surely know that anything viewable on my computer can be copied as well.) It's a pretty bold move considering that noone even knows that realplayer exists anymore.

Unfortunately, they no longer have the clout (if they ever did) to push content providers to produce content that is not DRM-infected.

Re:Windows Only For Now

[XSforMe]

I don't get it... why would anybody be interested in having this piece of crapware native in their platform? I for one, avoid it like the plague: no machine under my wing gets touched with Realplayer.

Games that use Vorbis

[tepples]

I'm sorry to dissapoint you, but Ogg is not a MAJOR format. Only nerds ever heard about it, let alone use it. True, Theora is still in the nerds-only stage, but do only nerds play these computer games?

Re:Games that use Vorbis

[Anonymous Coward]

That only proves that some game programmers know about it, gamers won't know or care about what format the audio files are.

Re:Windows Only For Now

[squiggleslash]

The funny thing is that it's only ever been the Windows versions of RealPlayer and RealOne that have been crapware. The GNU/Linux and Mac OS X versions have always been beautifully minimalist.

I think the assumption has always been that people running Mac OS X and GNU/Linux are content creators/managers, and Windows users are consumers. You don't want to piss off the former two groups.

Re:Windows Only For Now

[Ash Vince]

Why does everyone whine about realplayer so much?

It has improved enormously of late. It runs on linux, it doesnt install any spyware and the actual player is open source.
To playback RM clips you need the proprietary codecs but let compare this to the other most widely used streaming media frameworks.

WMV / ASF

Windows only. I know you can get players that play the non DRM stuff but most sites seem to embed the clips in a webpage and try and force us to Windows Media Player.

Quicktime

Windows / Mac Only. No fullscreen unless you pay for the player (used to be anyway, havent used it for some time).

When compared to this lot Realplayer wins hands down. Now I know we could compare it to 8 million other formats / frameworks but these are the ones most widely used. This seems to be because most providers of content try and prevent you from keeping a local copy of their works, and things like MPG give you no way of doing this.