[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Do people encode or watch anything in Real format?
The quality is bloody terrible, the official player effectively roots itself on your box and there are so many better formats out there.

Can anyone tell me one redeeming feature of it or why it's lasted so long in the face of superior competition?

Rant ends.
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[Petrarch of the VBB]

It's blue. And green.

But that's about it.

[Rictor]

[ionia23]

RealNetworks = Crap

[Ford Prefect]

I use Real Player to manage my digital music; ripping stuff from CDs and putting it on my MP3 player and so-forth. I quite like it, actually.

[Flipside]

I stopped using Real Player after the whole 'silent spyware' incident.

[demon442]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
I use Real Player to manage my digital music; ripping stuff from CDs and putting it on my MP3 player and so-forth. I quite like it, actually.

Burn the heretic!  Then introduce his smoldering corpse to winamp!

[Ford Prefect]

Oh, well the computer I use for all my music doesn't have an internet connection, so it's all good.

Heh heh. I'd probably like Winamp too, because I'm really not all that fussy about my media players.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Winamp 2.91, Gods gift to the mp3 generation (and the  midi, DivX, mpeg, XviD, ogg, avi...).
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[demon442]

2.91 is great, a wonderful media player.  And, if they would get all the bugs worked out of 5, the balance of style and dependability would easily make it one of the greatest ever.

[karajorma]

What bugs? Never had any problems with 5. Then again all I do it play mp3s with it

[vyper]

[q]all the bugs worked out of 5[/q]

Like that registration for pro version button, I mean how did that pass QA?

[Falcon]

Winamp all the way! Yeah Winamp is a good player.

What was that saying.......   "Winamp really whoops the Llamas......"

[Ford Prefect]

Damnit, the Pro version costs money! wtfz0r?!

[Rictor]

*ahem*

Nova....

[Genryu]

For those who ***** against Real Player, try to get the RealAlternative codec. It lets you see the Real files without having to install the official player.

[castor]

For MP3 playback on Win platform, I use: http://www.foobar2000.org/

Exclusively.

Well okay, Winamp is good, too

[Kamikaze]

RealPlayer is available on Linux, but I don't use it 'cause there are plenty of much better video players. I use mplayer instead, which can play those real format files.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Genryu
For those who ***** against Real Player, try to get the RealAlternative codec. It lets you see the Real files without having to install the official player.

[color=66ff00]This is exactly what I'm trying to get at, there should be no need for real alternative or any other real media codec.
The whole shebang's a bad idea.
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[Flipside]

It's true you know, DivX is twice the Quality for half the size. I think it's because Real pretends it's so much easier to install in a Website, when, to be honest, I found it a complete pain.