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RealPlayer, formerly RealAudio Player, RealOne Player and RealPlayer G2, is a cross-platform media player app, developed by RealNetworks.The media player is compatible with numerous container file formats of the multimedia realm, including MP3, MP4, QuickTime File Format, Windows Media format, and the proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats. [7]
The latest version of RealPlayer that can run on Windows 9x is RealPlayer 8; but this version can be easily modified to play RealPlayer 9 and 10 files, by the manual addition of just three .dll files (codecs and plugins), from Microsoft's free distribution of RealPlayer 10, that are not included in RealPlayer 8 Basic.
VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS and iPadOS.
The following comparison of audio players compares general and technical information for a number of software media player programs. For the purpose of this comparison, "audio players" are defined as any media player explicitly designed to play audio files, with limited or no support for video playback.
a cross-platform, open-source C language library for real-time audio & midi I/O MIT License: PulseAudio: Yes Yes Yes (Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD) Yes a sound server for general desktop and multihost LAN applications LGPL-2.1-or-later: sndio: Yes No Yes (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) No sound and MIDI server ISC
RealMedia is a proprietary multimedia container format created by RealNetworks with the filename extension.rm. RealMedia is used in conjunction with RealVideo and RealAudio, while also being used for streaming content over the Internet.
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Instead, they link to a .ram (Real Audio Metadata) or SMIL file. This is a small text file containing a link to the audio stream. When a user clicks on such a link, the user's web browser downloads the .ram or .smil file and launches the user's media player. The media player reads the PNM or RTSP URL from the file and then plays the stream. [4]