Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Tim]

Les Mikesell:
>> Why doesn't anyone ever mention realplayer (http://www.real.com/linux)
>> as a solution for people who want a legal player for their own use and
>> aren't interested in source code or being a software distributer?


Arthur Pemberton:
> I believe a lot of people hate RealPlayer in a cross-platform manner.

Yes, cross-platform, annoyed-user...  It'd be the last resort, for me.
I don't know if they've changed their tune (pun intended), with the
databasing of your use of the program, the slow start up thanks to the
bloat, or not being able to readily whiz back and forth through a
playing file like you can with MPEG, or the general lousiness of the
media files.  But it had just about everything stacked against it.

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