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"States Say Microsoft Planned Media Player Coup"

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preacher:

quote: hm dude, you have Real Media files on your website  
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Indeed I do use real player 8.0 for linux, as there really isnt much alternative. Besides, Im a Southpark fanatic and 90% of the episodes out there are either in real media format, or the microsoft format. Just because I use their product doesnt mean I condone their actions or business practices. Oh, and thank you for visiting my website.

Kintaro:

quote:Originally posted by Vincent:
So far I think MS has done a good job with WMP... except for the fact that only XP received the WMP8 upgrade. RealPlayer I must say is horrible... RealPlayer 8 was loaded up on more ads than a porn site and RealONE integrates itself into the OS, hides itself from the program manager and delivers daily spam popups down by the taskbar even when it's supposedly not running. As far as media players go, WMP and QuickTime are the only two I'll touch... most sites have their media in QT and WM anyway.
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You like Windows media player, you should see The Fan Club! Its full of nutcases like you!

Calum:
well i still think it would be nice if there were open source gnu tools for easily manipulating the likes of wma, wmv, rm, ram, ra file types and so on. However good realplayer for linux is (and i have tried it briefly, it was OK), it is proprietary. I don't like realmedia and i'd rather not use their product. same with M$.

Nobber:
Would anyone dare develop tools (open source or otherwise) for downloading or manipulating RealAudio/Video streams? Real is prepared to use the DMCA against anyone who tries.

(Very nifty program, actually, is StreamboxVCR. Shame it's Windows only.)

foobar:

quote:Originally posted by ThePreacher:


Just because I use their product doesnt mean I condone their actions or business practices.
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Yup, totally agree. I still can't get to compile my ltmodem.o files to get my modem working under linux, so i have to use winblows (which just crashed before i got here)

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