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This is the Conversation Forum for The First Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture For goodness sake >> Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 15, 2003 by Whisky   Posting 1 For someone who's firewall does not like BBC real media streams... Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 15, 2003 by U255 This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 I'm afraid not. RealPlayer (as far as I'm aware) is the BBC standard. And that's what we've got here. I'm very sorry about that. Is the following link any good to you?: http://www.bbc.co.uk/help/help_av.shtml Sam. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 15, 2003 by Whisky This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 3 Yup, that's what I'd guessed... I'll just have to access it later from a more friendly network... This one never has been able to get through to any of the BBC real servers Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 15, 2003 by orangerocket This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 4 Sam, you are probably not the right person to say this to, but as a Mac user, RealPlayer can be next to useless (when streaming), BBCi as a whole should consider using Quicktime too. Power to the Mac World!? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 15, 2003 by Nightowl This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 5 concur Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 15, 2003 by EddJC This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 6 I wouldn't say that - the latest version (RealOne Player) is not only out on OS X but is tuned to use he G4 velocity engine and quartz graphics - it's certainly no worse than the windows counterpart. Quicktime streaming isn't that good.Neither is Realplayer, but there we go Edd Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 15, 2003 by ThinkSoft --==Death to Homework==-- This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 7 I too dislike Real Player. Quicktime's better. I even prefer windows player over it, and that's saying something! Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 16, 2003 by Andrew 3.0 Pro This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 8 realplayer's quite buggy for us pre OS Xers. plus they seem to want you to not download the thing, making it very hard to find and all. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 17, 2003 by U255 This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 9 From the BBC: "What's the problem with Windows Media Player? When the BBC began publishing audio and video content Real Media was the most secure form of streaming. Unfortunately Microsoft no longer supports Real content. Consequently, many of the later versions of the Windows Media Player will not play our clips. This may change in the future. NB: Some World Service clips are also streamed for the Windows Player." I'm so far down the food chain here I just nod and agree. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 17, 2003 by Clelba This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 10 i hate real player... i've tried using it because i want to listen to bbc radio etc online, but it's almost as bad as AOL in terms of taking over your computer that's what i've found anyway... ^. .^ = ' = Guru CommunityArtist Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 17, 2003 by EddJC This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 11 get macOSX or failing that, a better computer. It works fine on mine - takes up very little processor time - I can do all sorts of things while it happens Edd Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 19, 2003 by Clelba This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 12 i can't remember precisely what happens, it's not the processor time really, it's just an annoying little program that wants to be the solution to everything and isn't (ie everything slightly related to media opens in real player)(which annoys me) ^. .^ = ' = Guru CommunityArtist Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 20, 2003 by Fruitbat (Eric the) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 13 I also desire quick Time as a default stream. Many other web-based protocols I simply can't operate. The current difficulities may be more due to the nature of the web-connection, however: I'm on a cable modem at 512/sec. Anyone on dial-up 56K might have a terrible time with this kind of material. Having heard the lecture, I have two comments: 1)why is it broken into 7 parts? Is that for the 56k crowd? 2)When can I see the slides he was presenting on his Mac laptop? Fruitbat Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 20, 2003 by BouncyBitInTheMiddle This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 14 Gotta say I'm with the Realplayer hating crowd. Everytime it runs it sets an annoying little update programme to start when Windows loads, and for some reason this makes my firewall (which loads just after) crash. Being on a 56k, I dislike the whole streaming thing in general. Much prefer to just download and run, especially with segmented stuff like this. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 20, 2003 by Clelba This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 15 that's what it is, it's the 56k-ness of my connection (grr @ real player ) ^. .^ = ' = Guru CommunityArtist Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 21, 2003 by Andrew 3.0 Pro This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 16 i dunno if this fits here, but i was wondering if i could sample this and put it in a song i'm making... anybody know? Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 22, 2003 by EddJC This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 17 > wants to be the solution to everything I can understand that - the wondows version particularily is just like Windows Media and the Mac verion of Interntet Explorer in that it gives you a screen saying "do you want this to be your default app for blah blah blah blah" and you firmly click "no" - then it replaces all your protocols automatically ANYWAY. The way to get round it is spend hours going through your Browser "helper app" preferences (which I think reside in the "Internet" control panel on windows) changing everything the way you want it, although with Internet Explorer there are some things you can't change, for instance in MSN messanger if you click on a link, it will not goto your default browser. It will go to Internet Explorer. If you don't have Internet Explorer, then it won't work. Microsoft are anal like that. Re: rest of thread - I have a 56k connection and no real complaints about streaming - in fact I'm overawed at the quality of streaming at 56k. I do prefer streaming in some instances, downloading in others - streaming allows live TV for instance, like on the BBC news site, which is absolutely brilliant. Edd Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 22, 2003 by orangerocket This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 18 I can't begin to tell you how much RealPlayer annoys me, with it's advert-plastered interface and its desire to be noticed everywhere, in the apple menu, on the desktop, in explorer favourites... There are probably legal reasons for this, but why can't quicktime play real media stuff? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 23, 2003 by EddJC This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 19 you haven't got the latest version - download realOne player from their site - it doesn't have any ads or anything on it - it's just a very simple player. Edd Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Any chance of any other version apart from Real Player? Posted Apr 23, 2003 by orangerocket This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 20 Thanks, I'll have a look later - is that for the Mac as well as PC now? Read the First Reply to this Posting Conversation list Most of the content on h2g2 is created by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites referenced. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click on the relevant button to alert our Moderation Team. Conversation list

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