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RealPlayer 11 Is a Real Rip Contender

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-enemies-on-all-sides dept.

rishimathew writes to tell us TechNewsWorld is reporting that the new RealPlayer 11, not even out of beta yet, has a lot of great new features including the ability to easily rip streaming videos from sites like YouTube, Revver, and Heavy.com. "With the release of RealPlayer 11, the company is boldly moving into another dicey realm: ripping streaming video. Sure, there are lots of means out there to capture video from sites like YouTube Latest News about YouTube, Revver, Heavy.com and such. There are programs like WM Recorder (US$49.95) and Replay A/V ($49.95), as well as Web sites like Keepvid.com and Mozilla Latest News about Mozilla Foundation Firefox add-ons like VideoDownloader. I've tried some of them. Few, though, can match the slick ease of use of RealPlayer 11 -- and it isn't even out of beta yet."

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  1. A Real(tm) Comeback by __aamnbm3774 · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Real seems to be trying hard for a comeback.
    Rhapsody (though full of DRM) has an amazing to-go service that I find unbeatable at the moment.
    Even though REAL's old software (with blinking systray icons) was more than annoying, I admit I'll probably give this a try.

  2. Couldn't agree more... by xgr3gx · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember the early days of real player. Back when you could legally download full southpark episodes from comedycentral.com in real media format at only 50MB each, it was great!
    Not horrible quaility either back around 1999, and even for today's standards. Then came the blinking try icon, ok I found where to disable that.
    Then came registering, then the brutal automatic association of every media file to real player if you didn't carefully check your installer options.
    The the annoyware tactics to upgrade to "Real Player Gold" so annoying.
    Then came me not using realplayer anymore.

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  3. Re:It's closed, so it's dead by Constantine+XVI · · Score: 4, Interesting

    https://helix-client.helixcommunity.org/
    I rest my case.

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  4. Re:If it's from Real I won't use it. by rinkjustice · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've used realplayer almost exclusively for Linux, where it's been a multi-featured godsend. I know Real burned Windows users really bad, but Linux users got hella use out of RealPlayer 10 Gold.

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  5. Re:And the company are still die-hard spammers, no by Obfuscant · · Score: 2, Interesting
    So, back in the day, Real spammed. A lot.

    Two words: Maria Cantwell. The woman who thought that YOUR email system was installed so she could use it to sell you Real products.

    She's now a Senator, and still clueless.

  6. I was in the pub just last night by Bertie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And there was a girl there who I hadn't met before. She used to work for my company, but now works at RealNetworks, managing what content they make available for purchase or something. Now, like most of you, my first reaction was "boo, hiss" when she told me who she worked for. But she swore to me that their top brass have seen the light and realised that annoying the living shite out of all your users isn't a good long-term business plan. She was raving on about their new player that's about to come out, particularly about its ability to save stuff from Youtube etc., and advised me to give it a chance, because it wasn't the RealPlayer we all know and hate from the past.

    And I probably will give it a chance, purely because she's extremely attractive...