alternative to real player

[nemo160]

Is there a less awful program than real player that supports rm files?
normally i'd just get the files in a different form, but someone on my
dorm net has all the simpsons and south park episodes shared, but in
rm format

 

[AT]

This may help you. It's plugin for Winamp that allows you to play real media files in it. I haven't tried it myself but have heard some good things about it.

 

[Auric]

RealPlayer or RealOne pretty much has to be installed for the codecs and the only other players that can handle them that I know of are Winamp with a plugin and Media Player Classic (though not reliably).

 

[sean2002]

I think the the Real Media format should be botcotted, not only because there are beter formats available but because the player sucks

 

[nemo160]

thanks guys, i'll try that winamp plugin
i totally agree sean..real player is worthless and painful,and for video encoding divx or just about anything else would be better..i don;t know how rm got so widespread

 

[Slickone]

If there's a boycott, sign me up.

I'm surprised there isn't an 'underground' app that'll play RM files w/out RM having to be installed. I checked around a few weeks ago and never found one.

 

[Auric]

Real formats are widespread because they were a pioneer. Their player is bad but no worse than those of Microsoft or Apple who also push their own proprietary formats. Now that MPEG-4 has been standardarized hopefully we can say buh-bye to a lot of RM, MOV, WM, along with previous MPEG, et c. just as most audio formats have fallen before MP3 -though I am sure each will still have a niche due to each company's goal of world domination.

 

[Confused]

OldVersion.com has the older, Real Players.

IE none of this RealOne crap!

Confused

 

[singh]

Originally posted by: Auric
Real formats are widespread because they were a pioneer. Their player is bad but no worse than those of Microsoft or Apple who also push their own proprietary formats. Now that MPEG-4 has been standardarized hopefully we can say buh-bye to a lot of RM, MOV, WM, along with previous MPEG, et c. just as most audio formats have fallen before MP3 -though I am sure each will still have a niche due to each company's goal of world domination.

That is not entirely true. The difference with Microsoft's technology is that any software programmer can 'embed' the Media Playing capability into their own application, so that you do not have to use MS's media player. The same cannot be done with Real (without using non-standard hacks), so the user is forced to use Real's media player.