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Reply With QuoteWell, we never really actually _wanted_ Real on OS X. It's just that there are so and so many files in .rm format on the net that can't be viewed without the Classic version of the Real player. So a Real OS X player would be handy sometimes. And the move to MPEG-4 by Real will take some time. And this won't change anything about all the files that are still out there in .rm format. But yes, the problem will solve itself over, say, the next five to ten years (which is a very, very long time, isn't it?).
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- June 27th, 2002, 03:04 AM #1
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No need for Real...
just a thought...
Real is apparently moving to mpeg4 for video streaming.
Since Quicktime is able to play mpeg4, that means that we don't need to install Real bloatware (which is not even out yet).
I remeber reading a LONG time ago that Real and Apple were working on a new, common standard.
It's good to have open standards!
- June 27th, 2002, 04:48 AM #2
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- June 27th, 2002, 07:33 AM #3
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fryke is right...
Nobody I know WANTS Real for OS X, they just want to be able to view Real content that we are now locked out of.
Even with Real's adoption of MP4, it will still take several years for most of their userbase to adopt it. I bet the Mac community will adopt MP4 and QT6 fully (meaning over 85%) within 12-18 months. The Wintel community is a much larger ship, and will take more time to turn.
Real said they would have their player out by the end of the year, but who knows if that will hold up. I'm curious as to what route they are going with their OS X client - are they carbonizing the OS 9 client orLast edited by serpicolugnut; June 27th, 2002 at 10:14 AM.
- June 27th, 2002, 09:37 AM #4
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Just because Real will be using MPG4 doesn't mean that QuickTime will automatically be able to view Real stuff. It'll still be in the Real format, and will be unreadable by anything but the RealPlayer or whatever software they're pushing now.
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- June 27th, 2002, 09:41 AM #5
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Someone sent a letter to real and they said they couldn't talk about Real Player/ONE for OS X until July 17 which is MWNY also I want RealOne because I am subscribed to be bale to download MP3's and other stuff legally from RealOne
So I want RealOne or at least Real Player
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- June 27th, 2002, 10:46 AM #6
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what ablack said about the whole Real/July 17 thing sounded promising. Personally, I don't have problems with Real. I don't particularly like the format but I wouldn't mind having Real Player (or RealOne, whatever) on my machine.
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- June 27th, 2002, 11:50 AM #7
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I'm no fan of Real player, but I got RealOne for Win2k at work for something. It took the association for audio CDs, and the player is actually really nice. Besides downloading the track list, it also gets the album cover and info. Pretty cool. Of course the playlists and such are totally non-intuitive.
- June 27th, 2002, 01:17 PM #8
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I'd only use real player for listening to samples of music off Amazon.com, but if they gave Apple the code for real player and Apple implemented it into Quicktime, that would be awesome! (same for Windows Media Player).
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