John, I'm beginning to anneal a personal philosophy about media players. I'll explain: Media players fall into the following categories: 1. Horrible, disgusting malware (Quick Time, Real Player) from sociopathic companies. 2. Players from companies that want to get rich quick off digital rights or selling you stand-alone player hardware. These players may be integrated and slick
MicroFox wrote: uninstall quicktime that is bloatware and install quicktime alternative This will give you media player classic that will play your quicktime files, but also it will enable all directx players (like windows media player) to play quicktime http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm My experience with both Quick Time and Real Player on two systems
i have recently installed realplayer in order to watch some videos which i couldn't watch on WMP. i found out that all i needed was Quick time and decided to uninstall RPlayer. And now i can't restore how WMP worked before. my problem is that i can't stream my favourite radio station because when i click on the wmp to stream wmp doesnot launch in the streaming window any longer. there
Anne, I'll add a very short overview; the problems are complicated. If you go back a year or more, you'll find our discussions about this evil software and you may be able to flesh out the issues. Briefly: - These programs take over your computer so thoroughly that it's virtually impossible to uninstall them safely once they've been installed. The only way that I was able to remove Quick
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:17:21 -0800, Don Kirkman <donsno2@wavecable.com> wrote: It seems to me I heard somewhere that anne@munge.com wrote in article <2iv0s3d7homcvlvec67a6i1rkpidkmth0p@4ax.com>: I know I've read about a freeware alternative to Rreal Player, but I don't remember what it's called and I didn't save posts about it. Is anyone here using it? Does it fall short of Real