What about Real Audio?

**IslandJordan** · October 11th, 2001, 10:41 PM

Why haven't I heard anyone pissing and moaning about Real Audio Player for OS X? Is there a piece of software that I am unaware of that can play the .rm streams? Does that also have a browser plugin?

I think I'm missing something here.

Jordan

**Red Phoenix** · October 11th, 2001, 11:29 PM

It's been mentioned here before, but no, as far as anyone here knows, there's no way to listen to Real Player files.

**themacko** · October 11th, 2001, 11:55 PM

Originally posted by IslandJordan
Why haven't I heard anyone pissing and moaning about Real Audio Player for OS X?

Because Real Media sucks.

**ae77** · October 11th, 2001, 11:55 PM

I hope they make an OS X version soon. There are some streams out there I need RealPlayer for.

**Red Phoenix** · October 12th, 2001, 12:28 AM

While I think RealPlayer on the PC acts more like a virus than anything else, it is important to recognize that there are a lot of things out there that are streamed in RealPlayer format and nothing else. I personally think it's a substandard format (Especially with video. Man that sucks), but it's been around the longest and isn't going away anytime soon.

**PoweMACuser** · October 12th, 2001, 12:39 AM

Real Audio is out of date. It wastes memory and CPU times. The performance is not good at all. But it is really much more smaller than Microsoft format.

**themacko** · October 12th, 2001, 01:05 AM

Yeah I know, I use it listen/watch to some local sports recaps .. but it still wreaks.

**AdmiralAK** · October 12th, 2001, 05:56 AM

Real AUdio pretty much sucks but I use it

I was able to get a hold of a beta of teh producer software when it was public betaed and have been using that since to produce my files.

I dont have the $$ to invest in an encoding technology.
I dont want to use windows media, I tried quicktime but files seems to be really big. ANy idea if apple has a producer-like app to make streaming media ?

Admiral