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Novell and RealNetworks Team Up for Universal Multimedia Support

5 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/novell-and-realnetworks-team-up-for-universal-multimedia-support.34222/

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gxsaurav Original post #1
Aug 16, 2006 at 3:01 PM
this i found on dailytech, & have to say, good move

When i tried linux, i liked real player only, seems like a good move in a new market, they have lost in Windows & Mac market anyway

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QwertyManiac
Aug 16, 2006 at 3:23 PM
Totem and Xine rocks :p

Good move by Real, its joined with Fx too :D
Satissh S
Aug 16, 2006 at 3:27 PM
The only positive from this is we can play WMF contents from Embedded Sites, ogg has a way better audio quality than any of those, mp3 or wma. And i have converted almost all of my audio to ogg in my GNU/linux box and AAC in my mac.
M
Aug 16, 2006 at 3:47 PM
This will be only for SLED and not for OpenSUSe. So, not a big deal as SLED will have multimedia capabilities out of the box as we pay for proprietory softwares too in it.
I would anyday trade this for VLC + Amarok + Mplayer(cli) whichever you like, it's just unbeatable. Any of the three can be choosen, Mplayer and VLC can play lot more formats than realplayer.
JGuru
JGuru #5
Aug 16, 2006 at 4:53 PM
This is for Suse Linux (commerical version) & SLED, & not for OpenSuse!!
Both are proprietary, so you have to pay for them. Also RealPlayer is not going great guns!!
VLC & MPlayer support most of the Video formats. So not a big loss for us.
XMMS can support MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, etc., That's enough for me.