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Pathos:
after their shit windows media player I stay far away from real.

my collections in mp3's anyway. wma's seem to work fine too.

davidnix71:
Real is taking a big chance going with Linux, I hope it works out well for them so others will follow.

Real has offered a player in OS X only since Panther. ffmpegX uses the Helix code to allow a mac user to recode Real Video (not audio) into an mp4 avi that is more universal. Real will play mp3's without the hacks required for Quicktime, too.

ffmpegX is a bitch to install. Everyone is covering their butts about intellectual property rights, so you have to download and install 2 or 3 third-party softwares to actually use ffmegX. That said it works well if you choose the default settings and use a genuine Real Video file. I don't use it often, but it has it's place.

I don't allow Real to access the internet. If that violates the eula, tough. I don't let Quicktime out of the box either. I don't like having to watch ads just to play a file.

I don't like Windozes Media at all, but with VPC Win98SE and TMPGEnc Plus it doesn't take long to recode WM into an mp1 or mp2 that VLC or MPlayer can handle.

Google and YouTube use Flash instead of WM, which I think is good and bad. Good, because Mr Bill doesn't get any money from it but bad because Flash sucks worse than WM.

_kill__bill:
Heh, I use MP4 (if ever) and Ogg Vorbis (often, also MIDIs). Nice to know I can use a bad format on a good OS.

pofnlice:
Personally I don't care. The more people that challenge WMP by using WM codecs and making it supported in their players could force MS to conform to some type of regular standard. I don't think DRM will ever go away though.

GenuineAdvantage:

--- Quote ---I don't think DRM will ever go away though.
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Neither will mold but that's doesn't mean I want to buy it.

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