Crap-free Real Player

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Nat Torkington
Sep. 21, 2004 08:37 PM
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URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/audiohelp_install.shtml...

The BBC's charter says they aren't allowed to shower their viewers with craptastic ads for random American companies (I'm paraphrasing), so to get Real as a BBC format, Real had to produce an ad-free player. Which you can download. Yay BBC! Now you can enjoy Indian dance music, bagpipes, or classic comedy without ads for Britney Spears merchandise, medication for anal leakage, or whatever else Real decides to shove your way. (via Neil Gaiman's blog)

Nat Torkington is conference planner for the Open Source Convention, OSCON Europe, and other O'Reilly conferences. He was project manager for Perl 6, is on the board of The Perl Foundation, and is a frequent speaker on open source topics. He cowrote the bestselling Perl Cookbook.

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Quicktime - good question
2004-09-23 07:35:38 Peady [Reply | View]

BBC World is still on Quicktime, I think. Probably because the overhead of creating everything in two formats would probably kill them, poor sods. And as much as I hate to say it, I think Real media was better than Quicktime playback...

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2004-09-23 03:45:06 nedrichards [Reply | View]

The Linux RealPlayer is also 100% crap free and even sports a mildly snazzy GTK+2 interface.

Isn't the OS X Version already clean?
2004-09-22 16:24:49 Inkling [Reply | View]

Does the OS X version of Real Player even display these nuisances? I use it at least twice a day, and I've never seen an ad intruding.

And while we're discussing the Mac, why doesn't the BBC offer content in QuickTime? Thanks to the iPod, it now has a larger market share than Real.

--Mike Perry, Inkling blog , Seattle

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