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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Gregjazz on Wed 08/03/2006 06:54:50

Title: Google is ON it!
Post by: Gregjazz on Wed 08/03/2006 06:54:50
Browsing and I ran into this, so funny I had to take a screenshot:

(http://www.gregjazz.com/upload/realplayer.jpg)

What are the advantages of the Realplayer format again?
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: Phemar on Wed 08/03/2006 08:01:17
You can watch South Park episodes with it ... ? ;)
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: auhsor on Wed 08/03/2006 11:05:58
Free spyware! Yay!
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: hedgefield on Wed 08/03/2006 13:29:24
Quote from: Zor on Wed 08/03/2006 08:01:17
You can watch South Park episodes with it ... ? ;)
South Park (http://mrtwig.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=899) you say...

RealAlternative (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm) is the way to go!
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: ManicMatt on Wed 08/03/2006 17:25:20
Something about realplayer I don't know? I got that purely because loads of things were asking for it whenever I played something off the net.
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: Gregjazz on Thu 09/03/2006 00:18:43
Quote from: largopredator on Wed 08/03/2006 13:29:24
Quote from: Zor on Wed 08/03/2006 08:01:17
You can watch South Park episodes with it ... ? ;)
South Park (http://mrtwig.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=899) you say...

RealAlternative (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm) is the way to go!

Oh yeah! I heard about that one... I'll have to check it out.

ManicMatt: Try closing your browser or anything using the internet. Notice that modem activity is still there. :) I had RealPlayer a while back for the same reason as you, but now it's good to hear there's an alternative.
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: MrColossal on Thu 09/03/2006 00:21:40
I use realalternative and quicktime alternative, hooray for not having to use the slowest loading program ever which is quicktime!
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: MillsJROSS on Thu 09/03/2006 05:40:09
I believe it's an advantage to it's counterpart the fakeplayer. Which was just spy-ware. I know I much prefer real things to the fake ones.

-MillsJROSS
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: Gilbert on Thu 09/03/2006 08:28:44
It's hard not to coop with spywares. The most popular spyware is called Window$ Downgrade. :=
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: ManicMatt on Sun 19/03/2006 11:20:57
*moans*

Hey! I got rid of realplayer and installed this alternative and when I click on a sample to play off amazon the classic media player comes up and shows a file to load up and doesn't play it, or appear to even stream it!

HELP me please before I go back to the realplayer!

It says it playing, but it's clearly not.
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: auhsor on Sun 19/03/2006 12:10:32
Sometimes I had the same troubles with MPC. Make sure you have the latest version of Real Alternative, as Real may have changed some stuff.
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: InCreator on Sun 19/03/2006 17:10:24
QuoteI use realalternative and quicktime alternative, hooray for not having to use the slowest loading program ever which is quicktime!

...And let's not forget how nicely Quicktime rapes the system tray & browser. And how useful the Realplayer "message center" is, with nice ads coming up all the time. Unexpected and wrong time. Like when I play a racing game and this sucker pulls me to desktop just when I'm winning...

** cries unstoppably
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: magintz on Sun 19/03/2006 20:50:56
I like to use a video convert to convert my .rm files to .avi
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: Gregjazz on Sun 19/03/2006 20:52:56
Quote from: magintz on Sun 19/03/2006 20:50:56
I like to use a video convert to convert my .rm files to .avi

I was looking into that conversion thing, but I don't think I ever found something free that could convert .rm to .avi. What do you use?
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: Reko on Mon 20/03/2006 15:51:07
Quote from: InCreator on Sun 19/03/2006 17:10:24
QuoteI use realalternative and quicktime alternative, hooray for not having to use the slowest loading program ever which is quicktime!

...And let's not forget how nicely Quicktime rapes the system tray & browser. And how useful the Realplayer "message center" is, with nice ads coming up all the time. Unexpected and wrong time. Like when I play a racing game and this sucker pulls me to desktop just when I'm winning...

** cries unstoppably
Oh, yes. There are just too many drivers and other things nowadays that seem to believe they're important enough to have a system tray and an actual message center just for them.

Frankly, half of these applications are designed as if they're the only thing to be installed on the machine.

HP printer drivers, for example. (Ugh!)
Title: Re: Google is ON it!
Post by: Hakujin on Mon 20/03/2006 16:21:34
I love the little racket they've got going on there. Download spyware, remove spyware, download spyware, remove spyware. FREE FREE FREEEEE! GET IT NOW WHILE IT'S TOO HOT 2 LAST!