Tim wrote:
Les Mikesell:
Why doesn't anyone ever mention realplayer (http://www.real.com/linux)
as a solution for people who want a legal player for their own use and
aren't interested in source code or being a software distributer?
Arthur Pemberton:
I believe a lot of people hate RealPlayer in a cross-platform manner.
Yes, cross-platform, annoyed-user... It'd be the last resort, for me.
I don't know if they've changed their tune (pun intended), with the
databasing of your use of the program, the slow start up thanks to the
bloat, or not being able to readily whiz back and forth through a
playing file like you can with MPEG, or the general lousiness of the
media files. But it had just about everything stacked against it.
The bloat and slow starts in third party GUI linux programs come from
the static libraries they are forced to include since they can't count
on any shared libraries being available or (more importantly) already
loaded. In a commercial operating system this would be important enough
to fix.
And I didn't mean to use realplay to play realmedia files, I meant to
use it as a legal player for mp3 and aac files. I haven't used it for a
while but I thought the main problem was that it didn't have good
playlist handling like itunes.
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Les Mikesell
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