Re: OfB.biz: Real Networks Announces New Media Player Project

"Timothy R. Butler" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Organization Universal Networks
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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> > > Now, beyond my characture here, consider this: Real also brings a good
> > > name back into the community.
> >
> > People who consider this bizarre definition of 'good name' would probably
> > not consider using Linux.
>
> Also, I don't think anything you said justifies the statement that Linux is
> lagging behind in the video player area. Although it might justify my
> statement that you haven't actually done any research on MPlayer.

  Sure I have... I've used it quite a bit, although I got tired of fighting 
with it. I did get a DVD playing, IIRC albeit without menu functionality (I 
can't recall if MPlayer is suppose to support that or not, at any rate, I 
moved on to xine after awhile). 

  KMPlayer looks promising, but didn't work well when I tested it (January). 

  At any rate, Real's work could allow distros to ship with RealMedia support 
in the box... MPlayer can't do that (legally). I'm also guessing, although I 
could be wrong, that KMPlayer/MPlayer doesn't have full RealMedia support for 
things like menus, etc.

  At any rate, I think getting the "real thing," ahem, is still better than 
getting Windows libraries to work in GNU/Linux.

  -Tim

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