Real Player Alternative
I was browsing to a website today that actually required I have Real Player installed. Real Player? I definitely would not put that annoying Spyware/resource hog on my PC. Then I remembered I installed a version of QuickTime Lite to view sites that required that, so I figured there would be a cool alternate version of Real Player out there. Sure enough! Real Alternative is a great way to bypass installing the whole Real Player pig. Also, when installing it you can choose to just install what you need.
All I needed was the plug in for Firefox and that is all I installed! Now I can view the website which requires Real Player.
This article was written on 11/5/07 and tagged with: Internet, Free Software Utilities
Thanks for the post about the alternative media players. I'm way past frustrated with playing videos offline & the player automatically connecting online.
But, more of a question than acomment…
The media players frequently update for security issues, i.e. the recent Apple QuickTime update. What are the security issues of the lite / alternative players, if any? Are updates / patches made to makes these programs more secure for users?