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RealPlayer is a media player, created by RealNetworks, that plays a number of multimedia formats including multiple generations of RealAudio and RealVideo codecs as well as MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, etc.The first version of RealPlayer was introduced in April 1995 as RealAudio Player, one of the first media players capable of streaming media over the Internet. Up to version 8, the product was available as RealPlayer 'Plus' and 'Basic', the latter being provided as freeware. The next version was called RealOne Player.
The current version 10.5 is again available as RealPlayer 'Plus' and 'Basic' for a number of platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix, Palm OSPalm OS is an operating system made by PalmSource, Inc. for personal digital assistants (PDAs) manufactured by various licensees. History Palm OS was originally developed by Jeff Hawkins for use on the original Pilot PDA by US Robotics. 0 was present on t and Symbian OSSymbian OS is an operating system with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian. It is a descendent of Psion's EPOC. There are multiple user interface flavours that use the Symbian. The program has an open sourceNote: "open source" in the intelligence community simply means "any information accessible to the public, possibly after paying a fee". This article is about open source software, a more common meaning for the term "open source". Open source or open sourc equivalent called Helix playerHelix is RealNetworks' open source media framework. The code is released under the RealNetworks Public Source License. The Helix DNA Client and the Helix player additionally are licensed under the popular open source license GPL. 0 milestone 1 was release.
RealPlayer 10.5 for Windows also contains CD burning capabilities, multimedia search, Internet radio, media libraries, an integrated web browser (based on Internet ExplorerInternet Explorer abbreviated IE or MSIE is a proprietary but free-of-charge web browser from Microsoft. It is available for most versions of Microsoft Windows, however Microsoft has now stopped releasing updated versions for any platform aside from Windo) and the ability to transfer media to a number of portable devices, including Apple's iPodDutch is used. The iPod is a portable audio player designed and marketed by Apple Computer. It stores music on a built-in hard drive, which gives it much larger capacity than other portable audio players that rely on flash memory. This also lets it serve, MP3 players and Windows Media devices.
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- Comparison of media playersThe following table compares general and technical information for a number of media player programs. Please see the individual products articles for further information. External links Media players Software comparison.
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