Friday, February 18, 2005

A Real Alternative

Do you play video files on your PC, such as Real Media files, QuickTime files and the various Windows Media formats? If you do then you have probably installed the various players needed to play the different file formats. Well I have big news for you, there is now a media player called Media Player Classic that changes all this, because it plays ALL the media types I mentioned above, along with all major sound file formats.

Media Player Classic looks like version 6 of Windows Media Player, and you would be forgiven for thinking at first glance it is, however it is not, it's an open source written software package, that is a far better version of Windows Media Player 6, and of course, it's Windows XP compatible.

This means for me as a user of these files, I
  • no longer get bugged when loading a QuickTime file to upgrade to the pro version,
  • no longer have to wait for Real Player to load (which can take a while) or go hunting on their website to find the download for the free player
  • get a better set of audio & video codecs (to decode some media file types)
You can download Real Alternative, which includes Media Player Classic here: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_alternativeness along with loads of codecs and other programs such as QuickTime Alternative.

Give Real alteration / Media Player Classic a try. I'm sure you will come to love it as a great media player!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well, that could be true.