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Posted by Jeff on 01/25/08 14:54
cwdjrxyz wrote:
> On Jan 24, 12:01 pm, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centralva.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Been using it for years. While you're at it remove that even nastier
>> produce Real One Player and replace with Real Alternative
>>
>> http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm
>
> Yes, if Real 11 available for your OS, you should remove Real One now,
> even if you like it, because the Real 11 is just out of beta where it
> had been for some time.
Man, what has happened to all these players? I remember using the
real player in it's earliest incarnations and it was the coolest thing.
Streaming audio over a 14.4 connection (and sounding pretty good at
56k), and it never tried to do anything but push the content you wanted.
You could adjust it so it only had the features you wanted. Now
everything looks like a flash component and it takes guess work just to
figure out how it works.
It would be nice if they did what you needed rather than look gorgeous.
Jeff
>
> I have WMP11, Real11, QT, iTunes, Winamp, AVS, GOM, FLV, Media Player
> Classic, Nero Show Time, Cyberlink PowerDVD, and Nero Media Player all
> installed. By far the most nasty is the Nero Media Player. It very
> often grabs media files for itself that have been assigned to other
> players as primary. This player is part of a large Nero suite. When I
> get time, I likely will remove it if that is not too much trouble. If
> you carefully assign what player is primary for what media file type
> and do not have conflicts, the mentioned players usually all work well
> together. You have to watch out when you download a new player and
> select the advanced setting for file types it offers to play. The best
> thing to do is not check any file types. Then come back and check file
> types as you need them to be primary on the new player. If you have
> WinPatrol installed, it usually will catch a player trying to steal
> files from another, and you must approve the change before WinPatrol
> will let it happen. I use most of the players just for checking web
> pages to see if they will work properly on a file type. If you use a
> player only for testing, you can set it to be primary for no file
> types. Then when you want to use the player, you first bring it up and
> usually under the file tab you choose to enter a local media file or a
> url. Also, it is important not to allow all of the players to start up
> when you turn the computer on, or you may have a very long wait.
>
> It is true that Apple now offers the QT download along with iTunes.
> None of the players are very big files on comparison to many high
> resolution video files when you often use several 1 GB vob files for a
> single feature link movie. Even iTunes/QT downloads fairly fast on a
> good high broadband connection if their server is not overloaded. I
> usually do long downloads at night. However some of the players would
> be rather slow downloads on dialup.
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