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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. Cool! by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cli...

    *buffering*
    *buffering*

    ...ck!!

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  2. Re:One Click Goatse! by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

    As much as I loath the "goatse.cz" posters, it's apropos in this thread since that's probably a picture of where RealPlayer was pulled from. ;-)

  3. 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.

  4. Big Yawn! by Greger47 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The Flash plugin has always allowed you to rip streams.
    1. Open your %TEMP% folder.
    2. Start playing todays 15 seconds of fame clip on YouTube's frontpage.
    3. Notice the flaXXX.tmp file that just appeared in the temp folder.
    4. When the clip has finished playing, copy the file somewhere and rename it to HE_iS_BURNiN_HIMS3LF_LOLZ!!!.flv

    /greger

    1. 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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  5. 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.

  6. Re:Windows Only For Now by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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