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Link: RealPlayer 10 now available for OS X (supports QuickTime files)
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Category: 3rd Party Software
Link: RealPlayer 10 now available for OS X (supports QuickTime files)
Posted on MacBytes.com
Approved by Mudbug
OS X has never allowed RealPlayer to be as obnoxious as it was in OS 9... but I still have nightmares about the 9 days! Messed up every system setting and screwed up the opening of unrelated files... like text documents! A company that would even TRY to take over opening of SO many document-types makes me nervous.
But it's been OK for me in X--and useful for iTunes music shopping
I'm on modem and I don't always want the full-quality (slow) preview... so I go to Amazon and find many of the tracks there on CD, where they can be previewed with Real. Terrible quality, but very quick. Once I know I have the right song, I click Buy in iTunes
But it's been OK for me in X--and useful for iTunes music shopping
I'm on modem and I don't always want the full-quality (slow) preview... so I go to Amazon and find many of the tracks there on CD, where they can be previewed with Real. Terrible quality, but very quick. Once I know I have the right song, I click Buy in iTunes I downloaded this last night (was surprised to see it on Real's servers just after midnight when I looked just for the heck of it), and I've got to say it's a HUGE improvement over the previous version.
I was never a big Real fan, and the old version was a total mess, but it was the only way for my wife to watch her news streams without using the even-worse WMP.
The new beta looks better, the video seems to be crisper (either better post-processing, or the site I'm using feeds a different video format if your player supports it), playing starts faster, you can now skip around in a streaming clip and it'll start playing almost immediately (instead of either a long delay, or stalling entirely), you can resize or drag the window without the video freezing, and it seems faster in general.
I don't trust whatever Real is doing in the background, but they're still a necessity for some sites, and the free player just went from being a total joke to a relatively nice piece of software, and this is just the beta.
(Now if they'd just drop the silly overdone Windows-style interface for something a bit more Mac-standard...)
I was never a big Real fan, and the old version was a total mess, but it was the only way for my wife to watch her news streams without using the even-worse WMP.
The new beta looks better, the video seems to be crisper (either better post-processing, or the site I'm using feeds a different video format if your player supports it), playing starts faster, you can now skip around in a streaming clip and it'll start playing almost immediately (instead of either a long delay, or stalling entirely), you can resize or drag the window without the video freezing, and it seems faster in general.
I don't trust whatever Real is doing in the background, but they're still a necessity for some sites, and the free player just went from being a total joke to a relatively nice piece of software, and this is just the beta.
(Now if they'd just drop the silly overdone Windows-style interface for something a bit more Mac-standard...)
"free download" ha
Yeah... still not free... only for 14 days. And what sucks more... is that on OS 9 or a stupid PC its free. I dont get it.. thats retarted.
Edit: OK never mind.. I was looking at Real One Player... .difference.
Yeah... still not free... only for 14 days. And what sucks more... is that on OS 9 or a stupid PC its free. I dont get it.. thats retarted.
Edit: OK never mind.. I was looking at Real One Player... .difference.
Non event, I've never had a reason to use realplayer... any video worth viewing online is in a format quicktime recognizes, and for everything else there is VLC and sadly WMP.
So.. woohoo for realplayer!
So.. woohoo for realplayer!
Real who?
Why would you want Real Player on your Mac? I can't believe Real Networks is still around. Not worth the risk.
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Still waiting to buy my Mac...
Why would you want Real Player on your Mac? I can't believe Real Networks is still around. Not worth the risk.
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Still waiting to buy my Mac...
the only thing i use real player for is to watch south park. for a while ago I trashed my real one and changed to mplayer with real media too.
I might try this real player 10 when it reaches the final version. for now, I'm good with just downloading the beta and putting it on a backup disc later on.
I might try this real player 10 when it reaches the final version. for now, I'm good with just downloading the beta and putting it on a backup disc later on.
Butler Trumpet said:
yeah, i don't think any of us are rushing out to buy One. sometimes they do those timed trials w/ betas to force you to get the actual final release at a later date, albeit normally longer than 14 days.
i haven't downloaded this yet, but may tonight just b/c the other posts have said it's a marked improvement over the previous POS player. i've also been leary of Real since the days of OS9 when it would try to hijack every media type on your computer.
lately, i've been a fan of Mplayer b/c it plays just about everything you throw at it (although the fact that it doesn't constrain proportions when you resize is kinda' annoying)
AirTunes anyone?
I'm listening to european radio a lot and they are almost 99% either WMA or RM... Is there a way to use RealPlayer with AirTunes? THAT would be cool!
I'm listening to european radio a lot and they are almost 99% either WMA or RM... Is there a way to use RealPlayer with AirTunes? THAT would be cool!
MacNCheeze said:Why would you want Real Player on your Mac? I can't believe Real Networks is still around. Not worth the risk.
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Still waiting to buy my Mac...
The same reason I have Windows Media player installed on my Mac...because of the content available exclusively the Real (OR WMA) format online. NPR, the BBC World Service, Air America Radio, PRI, just to name a few...and none of these have QuickTime streams. Realone player has been a system resource hog, and I hope this version is better.
sunnfun said:I'm listening to european radio a lot and they are almost 99% either WMA or RM... Is there a way to use RealPlayer with AirTunes? THAT would be cool!
I was thinking this as well. Apple should give you the option of having Airtunes send out all sound from your Mac...
Free Real Player 10
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Look directly under "Free Games", annoying but free.
They have always had a free version, thery just hide it well. To get the truly free version you have to look in the top right hand corner of their page for this linkButler Trumpet said:
Look directly under "Free Games", annoying but free.
Hopefully this means better quality MLB.tv, which is the only things I use the Real Player for. My Cube can't even play the Windows Media stream at a decent frame rate, while Real at least gets a decent framerate. So that's why I use Real.