RealPlayer 11 Linux

[yopnono]

The RealPlayer 11 is out inc windows media support
https://player.helixcommunity.org/2007/releases/RealPlayer/ReleaseNotes.html

[madjr]

The RealPlayer 11 is out inc windows media support
https://player.helixcommunity.org/2007/releases/RealPlayer/ReleaseNotes.html

yay thats great.

i was beginning to start to hate them because i was only seeing RP for windows and mac on main site.

anyway the linux version is kind of hidden.... as always

[Google Spider]

Don't we have codecs for rm format? What's the use of installing real player?

[SunnyRabbiera]

its sort of a "just in case" method
but hey at least real is making some effort, unlike most of them

[drascus]

Don't use real player. In the past Real player has used its player to spy on its users. find a free player that implements its format and use that instead.

[mrgnash]

I have never ONCE got this player to work. It doesn't matter what type of video I try to play with it, it never has the necessary codec. I just tried this version, and same thing. Useless.

[eragon100]

It uses ALSA. Ubuntu 8.04 uses PulseAudio

Could this cause problems :confused:

[intense.ego]

Don't use real player. In the past Real player has used its player to spy on its users. find a free player that implements its format and use that instead.

Yep, it is labelled as spyware by most anti-spyware companies.

[madjr]

Yep, it is labelled as spyware by most anti-spyware companies.

still many people in windows use it, so they looking for it when they migrate.

it's good to have choice.

[GMU_DodgyHodgy]

Don't use real player. In the past Real player has used its player to spy on its users. find a free player that implements its format and use that instead.

Same here - it has never worked for me.

VLC all the way!

[Hells_Dark]

It uses ALSA. Ubuntu 8.04 uses PulseAudio

Could this cause problems :confused:

Of course not. Pulseaudio deals with oss, alsa, etc.

[cardinals_fan]

The only advantage of RealPlayer is 'legal' codecs - it is cheap adware. It drove me mad with advertisement popups on Windows... :mad:

[ubuntu-freak]

The only advantage of RealPlayer is 'legal' codecs - it is cheap adware. It drove me mad with advertisement popups on Windows... :mad:


Haven't used it on Windows for years, but didn't they change their ways a couple of years ago? They used to be really bad, but I like the fact they used Helix devs to make a lightweight Linux version.

Nathan

[yopnono]

The only advantage of RealPlayer is 'legal' codecs - it is cheap adware. It drove me mad with advertisement popups on Windows... :mad:

Well sorry to tell you... that the Linux version is *not* a bloatware/ adware :)
It's a slim lightweight player that now support the MS codecs.

[ubuntu-freak]

Is there a deb package yet? I do find it strange that they make an rpm package, but not a deb. Debian/Ubuntu have been no.1 for years now.

Nathan

[Polygon]

question!

is there a way to play .rm files without using RealPlayer? Or is using this program the only way?

[ubuntu-freak]

question!

is there a way to play .rm files without using RealPlayer? Or is using this program the only way?


MPlayer and VLC.

Nathan

[jrusso2]

How soon we forget or original friends. When I first started using Linux Real Player was really the only Media Player that even supported Linux.

Believe it or not there was a very early version of Windows Media Player you could get working on Linux even though it was for Unix.

But if you wanted to play any video Real was the only company that supported Linux back then.

Their Linux player is nice, its not adware or spyware. Right away everyone has to bash it and they are giviing you a legal way to play windows media now which everyone is always crying about being legal here.

[herbster]

Holy crap, Real Player still exists!

[beercz]

Downloaded it, installed it, tested it, used it.

Works OK.

Thank you and goodnight!

(btw in the Windows version you can turn off all the popups etc.)