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Real Networks stays out of Apple's spat with Adobe
THE COMPANY behind the video software Real Player, Real Networks has said it will remain neutral in the handbags at dawn duel between Adobe and Apple over Flash.
Instead it points to its own SP software as the key to being able to watch Flash videos on the cappuccino company's gadgets. Johan Hansen, senior director of consumer software at Real Networks said, "We don't side with Apple or Adobe, we just want people to be able to access videos on their devices."
He then demonstrated how his company's SP product enables downloading Flash videos and converts them to H.264 while syncing with Apple devices like the Ipad to allow users to store videos originally uploaded in Flash and play them back.
Hansen said this allows users to store videos on their devices to play them back whenever they wish, helping them save time and money by removing the need to connect devices to networks and avoid expensive data chargers, particularly if abroad.
"The tool also helps users avoid issues of copyright infringement by only downloading videos that are not protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM) licenses," he added.
Consumer managing director for EMEA at Real Networks, Marili Hooft-Bolle, announced the firm will be adding new features to the SP product in September, including the ability to download and sync video images and a tool to allow users to upload content from mobile devices to their desktops through the SP software
"Users are often confused by uploading video as there are so many bits of software they have to add and work with. But the SP tool brings together all this software, and provides a single, straightforward interface to upload video," she said.
Hooft-Bolle added that the firm will be undertaking an extensive marketing campaign in the coming months to push its SP products, as it looks to stake its claims in the competitive mobile video field. µ
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I will always remember real player as the media player, which on first starting, asked "None of your media files (avi, mpeg, mp3 etc) are associated with real player. Would you like to correct this?"
First, asking me to associate everything with real player (which I only loaded to play real media files) annoys me. Secondly, asking to 'correct' this as if there was something wrong in the first place.
wish it was. The maker of spyware and cookies that can't be deleted so you can watch a video in a the worst propitiatory software ever made. The name makes me shudder. The will say or do anything to keep the name alive, and nobody cares.
Yeah, but one of the bad things about Flash was that it replaced them with bloated malware-prone crap like Flash player.
So not much further on, really.
Honestly, has Real Networks been relevant at all this last half-decade? One of the great things about Flash video was that it removed the disease of streaming video players like Real from most video sites. Good riddance.
Things are FUBAR-ed when Real Networks is the voice of reason.