RealPlayer

RealPlayer
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RealPlayer 11 on Windows
Developer(s) RealNetworks
Initial release 4.0
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English,Simplified & Traditional Chinese, German, French, Korean, Italian, Japanese as well as Portuguese.
Type Media player
License Proprietary
Website www.real.com

RealPlayer is a closed source cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.[1]

Contents

History

The first version of RealPlayer was introduced in April 1995 as RealAudio Player, one of the first media players capable of streaming media over the Internet.[2] Version 4.01 of RealPlayer was included as a selectable internet tool in MS Windows 98 installation.[3] Version 6 of RealPlayer was called RealPlayer G2; version 9 was called RealOne Player. Free "Basic" versions have been provided as well as paid "Plus" versions with additional features. On Windows, version 9 subsumed the features of the separate program RealJukebox.

RealPlayer 11 was released for Windows in November 2007, and for Mac OS X in May 2008. Versions of RealPlayer are also available for Linux, Unix, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian OS.[4] The program is powered by an underlying open source media engine called Helix.[5]

RealPlayer was a popular streaming media player during the early years of the Internet, but in recent years it has been surpassed in market share by Windows Media Player, and, since mid-2007, Apple's iTunes.[6] . Many users would have initially encountered RealPlayer as a plugin to watch streaming video or listen to streaming audio, e.g. the BBC's websites at one time used this almost exclusively[7], but in recent years Adobe Flash has become a much more popular format for this as demonstrated by the comparable success of BBC iPlayer. As a streaming media player, the number of unique users using RealPlayer has fallen by 50% over the 3 year period from March 2007 to March 2010.[8]

Features

RealPlayer, beyond its function as an audio/video player, also contains additional features such as:

Supported media formats

Formats supported by optional plug-ins

  • AT&T A2B (*.a2b, *.mes)[9]
  • Adobe Systems SVG (*.svg)[10]
  • Audible Audio (*.aa)[11]
  • Object Video (*.obv)[12]
  • Luidia eBeam (*.wbs)[13]
  • Digital Bitcasting[14]
  • Envivio (*.mp4)[15]
  • EVEN Technologies PSI Video (*.psi, *.fxv)[16]
  • LearnKey RealCBT (*.lkv)[17]
  • Liquid Audio (*.la, *.lmsff, *.lqt *.lavs *.lar *.la1 )[18]
  • Netpodium Quickcast Image (*.npi)[19]
  • Nullsoft Streaming Video (*.nsv)[20]
  • LiveUpdate! Streaming MIDI files (*.mid, *.midi, *.rmi)[21]
  • Camtasia Video (*.camv)[22]
  • Ogg Vorbis/Theora (*.ogg, *.ogm)[23]
  • RichFX (*.vpg, *.wgs)[24][25]
  • Mode2 CDs[26]
  • MIMIO Boardcast (*.mbc)[27][28]
  • BeHere iVideo 360° Movies (*.bhiv)[29]
  • iPIX 360° Movies (*.ipx)[30]
  • ScreenWatch (*.scw)[31]
  • Vivo Video Files (*.viv)[32]
  • MJuice Files (*.mjf)[33]
  • Blue Matter (*.bmt, *.bma)[34]
  • OZ.COM fluid3d[35]
  • IBM EMMS (*.emm)[36]
  • On2 VP5 (*.vp5)[37][38]
  • On2 VP4 (*.vp4)[39]
  • On2 VP3 (*.vp3)[40]
  • ImagePower Motion JPEG2000 (*.jp2, *.avi)[41]
  • 3GP Mobile Phone Video Files (3gp)[42]
  • AMR Narrow Band (*.amr)
  • Adaptive Multi-Rate|AMR Wide Band (*.amr)

Plug-ins

RealPlayer has a wide variety of plug-ins. Some of the plug-ins are listed at the RealPlayer accessories page, but not all.

Audio Enhancement
There are four audio "enhancers" available for the latest version of RealPlayer. DFX, iQfx, Volume Logic, and Sanyo 3D Surround. Lake PLS, created by Lake Technologies, works only with RealJukebox, and has limited use. There are some registry tweaks which allow Lake PLS to work with RealPlayer 10. Lake PLS is still available on the RealPlayer website.
RealPlayer Skin Creators
RealPlayer has had two skin creator plug-ins: SkinsEditor for RealJukebox -- an easy to use skins creator made by DeYoung software. The second application, RealJukebox Skins Converter, converts Winamp skins into RealPlayer skins.
Playback Plug-Ins
Please see section Formats supported by optional plug-ins.
Radio Tuners
vTuner Plus and HMRadio are radio tuners specially created for RealPlayer.
Visualizations
The available visualizations from the RealNetworks site are: FrequencywurX, FyrewurX, FlamewurX, XFactor, Spectrl View, FluxWave, Puddle, Paint Drops, Polka dots, StickSterZ 1.0, Circle, On the road, Real Logo, Hubble Bubble. There are some more visualization plug-ins like Surreal.FX by RealNetworks, G-Force and WhiteCap by SoundSpectrum and SticksterZ 1.1 by Eric Metois.
Firefox Browser Download (Firefox Add-on)
RealPlayer has a browser download add-on for Firefox (currently v1.0) which allows users to download video from a video player window (pop-up menu above top-right side of video player).
ScrobrealPlayer
an audioscrobbler plugin that connects RealPlayer with the Last.FM social music network.

Editions

RealPlayer for Windows

RealPlayer SP includes audio CD burning capabilities, DVR-style playback buffering, multimedia search, Internet radio, a jukebox-style file library, an embedded web browser (using Microsoft Internet Explorer), and the ability to convert and transfer media to a wide range of devices: Music players such as iPod and Zune, smartphones such as iPhone and BlackBerry, portable gaming devices such as Sony PSP, and console gaming systems such as Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii. Since version 11, RealPlayer SP has gained Flash Video support, DVD, SVCD, VCD burning (120-minute) and video recording (DRM is supported). The free version is not currently available for 64-bit versions of Windows.

As of 2010 RealPlayer Enterprise is a licensed product for enterprise applications which can be customized and remotely administered by RealPlayer Enterprise Manager.[43] Realplayer Enterprise Education Edition is free.[44] Both versions of Realplayer Enterprise are lightweight, ad-free versions of Real Player, missing most consumer features and most plug-in support. The RealSched.exe update reminder can be disabled in two steps, and it is not reinstalled upon running the player.

As of August 2010 the current stable release for Windows is RealPlayer SP 1.1.5 Build 12.0.0.879[45]

RealPlayer for Mac OS X

RealPlayer 10's browser showing the RealPlayer Wikipedia page.

RealPlayer for Mac OS X is distributed for free. The latest current stable release as of July 2010 is version RealPlayer SP 1.0. It includes Real's Helix playback engine for RealAudio and RealVideo, a 10-band equalizer and video adjustment controls, and a full-screen, resizable "theater mode" for video playback, as well as many features found in its Windows counterpart.

Since the release of version 10.0 in 2004,[46][47] RealPlayer has become much more closely integrated with Mac OS X including features such as:

RealPlayer for Linux/Unix

RealPlayer for Linux/Unix is developed separately from the Windows and Mac versions. The client is based on the open-source Helix Player which can be found at the Helix Community Website. It supports RealAudio/Video, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. The interface depends on the current GTK+ theme.

RealPlayer for Symbian

The Symbian version of RealPlayer allows mobile phones to play Real Audio, Real Video, MP3, 3GP, AMR and other media formats. It is provided as freeware. In newer Symbian devices it can also be used to stream both audio and video content in the form of MP3 (music) and 3GP (videos).

RealPlayer for Palm

RealPlayer 1.6.1 (US) or RealPlayer 1.6.0 (worldwide) is available for free for PalmOne-made Palm OS 5 devices, such as the Palm Tungsten or Zire series.[48] It is also compatible with RealPlayer Music Store tracks. However, they will neither install nor run on non-PalmOne-made devices like Sony's Clie line of PDAs. They also do not support modern Palm smartphones such as the treo 700p, 755p, or Centro, although the treo 600 and 650 are listed as supported devices. Their Web page regarding PalmOS support (shown above) gives no indication if support for those devices will ever be provided.

RealJukebox

RealJukebox was a computer program released by RealNetworks that allowed users to organise their digital music. It was first released in May 1999. By late 2001 the functions of the program had been integrated into the Real's core media player program, RealPlayer.

Criticism

RealPlayer's Message Center has been criticized for its pop-up advertisements

Past versions of RealPlayer have been criticized for containing features similar to adware and spyware. In 1999 security researcher Richard M. Smith dissected some of RealJukebox's network traffic and discovered that it was sending a unique identifier with information about the music titles to which its users were listening.[49][50] RealNetworks issued a patch, and the spyware was removed[51] in version 1.02. Their download page stated RealJukebox included privacy enhancements and gave a link to the privacy policy.[52]

In 2006 PC World magazine named RealPlayer (1999 Version) as #2 in its list of the 25 worst products of all time, writing that RealPlayer "had a disturbing way of making itself a little too much at home on your PC--installing itself as the default media player, taking liberties with your Windows Registry, popping up annoying 'messages' that were really just advertisements, and so on."[51] In 2007, it placed RealPlayer, versions 1996-2004, at #5 in its list of the 20 most annoying tech products.[53]

In 2008 StopBadware.org called RealPlayer "badware" due to failure to completely disclose software components it installs as well as those it leaves behind after being un-installed.[54] Jeff Chasen, vice president for RealPlayer, responded by stating: "I actually admire what StopBadware is trying to do to keep consumers safe. But in this case the only thing bad is the report itself. Here’s why: Not a single claim raised by StopBadware actually hurts anyone." [55]

The RealPlayer Message Center has caused controversy due to its pop-up advertisements. In previous versions of the program the Message Center had a reputation for being difficult to turn off completely. In RealPlayer 11 it will not appear unless it is turned on by the user.[55]

When RealPlayer for Windows is installed, a process called tkbell.exe will run automatically each time the computer starts up, and may appear on the list of active processes as realsched.exe. The process is linked to the Message Center and can also check for updates to the program. The process is non-essential and is not considered to be harmful, but has been seen as a nuisance by some users.[56] It can be disabled by altering the settings of RealPlayer's Message Center.[57]

Earlier Windows versions of RealPlayer experienced a problem with the volume control, where muting the sound in the program would also mute all system sounds.[58]

See also

Notes

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