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

On Thursday 07 August 2003 3:10 am, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
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> > RealONE for Linux does do 9.0 codecs. And to be honest, I hate it when
> > media players do all-in-one stuff. Fortunately the Linux version of
> > RealONE is still a media player, but the Windows version has hidden its
> > video frame within tons of useless other crap.
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>   It's not the greatest, but I know a lot of people want that. More
> interesting though, is I believe the 9.0 codec isn't fully compatible (I
> could be mistaken). At any rate, the prospect of most of the client code
> becoming Free (as in freedom) is exciting...

It really isn't, because Real design the most hideously ugly, unusable 
ad-ridden interfaces I've ever seen, and any idiot can design a bad 
interface. The bit that would be exciting would be if they were opensourcing 
their codecs, and they aren't.

> > mplayer has played all my files easily and I rarely need parameters.
> > Sure, a nice GUI front-end would be nice, but it's nonsense to say its
> > unusable.
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>   Well its unusable for some people I'd like to get on GNU/Linux systems
> (at least until they get acclimated).

Then give them a ~/.mplayer/config with nice settings

-- 
Dan.

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