{"id":317,"date":"2007-02-23T12:29:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T12:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=317"},"modified":"2007-02-23T12:29:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T12:29:07","slug":"real_alternativ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Real Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.real.com\/\">RealPlayer<\/a> has made a lot of enemies. It&#8217;s a free media player, which is nice. But RealPlayer likes to display pop-up advertisements, and it has a history of collecting information about the media files you play with it, leading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RealPlayer#Controversy\">some critics<\/a> to classify it as both <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adware\">adware<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spyware\">spyware<\/a>. When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/\"><em>PC World<\/em><\/a> compiled a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,125772-page,2\/article.html\">&#8220;The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time&#8221;<\/a> last year, RealPlayer was number 2. (The top offender was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AOL\">AOL<\/a>.)<br \/>\nBut occasionally, you may need to play a file that uses one of the proprietary RealMedia formats, such as .rm or .ra. In that situation, are you forced to use RealPlayer? Not necessarily. On a Windows system, you can use Real Alternative instead. Real Alternative is a codec pack that enables you to play RealMedia formats with Media Player Classic. You can download both Real Alternative and Media Player Classic from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-codecs.com\/download\/Real_Alternative.htm\">Real Alternative page<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-codecs.com\/\">freecodecs.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RealPlayer has made a lot of enemies.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=317\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}