[gui-talk] Fwd: New Version of realPlayer Going Beta this Month

[Steve Pattison]

>From: Jonathan Mosen jmosen at mosen.org
>To: PC audio discussion list pc-audio at pc-audio.org
>
>I saw this article and thought it'd be of interest to list members.
>
>New RealPlayer allows YouTube video download
>
>Posted by
>Donald Bell
>
>The new RealPlayer allows you to download embedded video content right from
>your browser.
>
>(Credit: Real Networks)
>
>Real Networks
>  has announced a new version of their RealPlayer today that will be
>available as a PC-only public Beta in June. The player allows users to
>download and
>organize nearly all embedded internet video content (Flash, WMV, QuickTime)
>including content from popular video sites like
>YouTube
>, Comedy Central, and of course,
>CNET
>. The player was demonstrated for me and actually looks pretty impressive.
>The new video download feature integrates fairly elegantly into your Web
>browser
>(yes, it works on Firefox). It works by temporarily displaying a small,
>fairly unobtrusive download tab in the right top corner of any video content
>it
>detects on a given Web page. It's even able to record streaming internet
>video in real time.
>
>It looks like a great improvement over the slow, intrusive RealPlayer I
>remember. One feature it lacks, however, is the ability to export your
>downloaded
>video content to an iPod-compatible format. You can, however, use RealPlayer
>to burn your downloaded videos to CD, and if you pony up some money for
>RealPlayer
>Plus, they give the ability to burn video content to DVD. Some small
>improvements have also been made to speed up the load time of the
>application and
>cut out many of the annoying installation questions.

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