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There is always a catch to "upgrades" isn't there.
Couple of days upgraded to Firefox 3, now I find my RealPlayer doesn't work with it.
Suppose I have to wait till RealPlayer catches up.
Funny thing is, I can't really see what has changed in Firefox!:(
Well, they managed to stop Real Player, that's a bonus :2tsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Shed
Big Shed, have a look at VLC, I think it's PC compatible, it plays everything under the sun and would work with F/Fox 3.
What's your problem with RealPlayer Greg?Quote:
Originally Posted by Groggy
Chris, I only use RealPlayer for downloading videos, eg YouTube stuff. When You play a video it pops up a box to allow you to download the video. I use other programs to actually play the videos. Does VLC do that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Waldo
Fred same thing here what I have been doing is copying URL into Realplayer and downloading that way :2tsup::2tsup:
I had a lot of nuisance stuff from RealPlayer in the early years and looked around for something to get rid of it. I have settled on VLC as Waldo also recommended; it just works and doesn't try to bury you with ads or other junk 'upgrades', or suggest you can buy the 'full version' twice a week. I avoid RP and Windows media player wherever I can now.
If all you need Real for is downloading the videos, there are several plug-ins for Firefox that do this. I use DownloadHelper. Open the page with the video, click on the DownloadHelper icon, give the file a sensible name and away you go.
VLC works fine as a player, 98% of the time. For those damnable Flash (FLV) files, there's FLVPlayer.
Greg, I haven't once received received ads or suggestion to buy the "full" version.Quote:
Originally Posted by Groggy
Must be something wrong with me, I feel deprived now:D
I had a look a the the DownloadHelper site, sounds interesting, especially the format converter feature.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Splinter
Fred for downloading stuff I use Azureus, to find the torrents I use http://www.mininova.org/ VLC doesn't download just plays everything under the sun. If a browser is upgraded VLC is upgraded very soon after, without the buy me upgrade me as Groggy pointed out. :2tsup:
Don't know if it still does it. It used to drive me batty and I won't use it again because of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Shed
Thanks Chris, my opinion of Azureus is not a very good one I'm afraid. I use BitLord for torrent downloads and it is seamless. I also use Mininova, but prefer Demonoid, there is some good stuff there.
The only thing I use RealPlayer for, and it does it very well, is downloading videos such as YouTube ones. I have visited the RealPlayer site and they say they are working on an upgrade fro Firefox 3.
Don't really know why I said yes to the Firefox 3 upgrade, there was nothing that didn't work for me in V2. Usually I go and have a look around before I upgrade any software.
If it does what I need it to do, I stay with the version I have.
My desktop puter is still on Win2000, my notebook is on WinXp only because it came with it.
Usually I take the view "if it ain't broke don't fix it", but must have had a brain fade with Firefox 3, having said that everything else seems to work just fine, and I still think that Firefox is the best browser out.
I'll have a look into BitLord. :2tsup:
I did the upgrade because an upgrade to a plugin I was using wasn't backward compatible. I'm not sure 3 is really faster, as was promised, and it wouldn't update on my eeepc because of rev diffs in tcl or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Shed
I don't like some features of the new 'smart' address bar, I don't particularly want to see some of the rarely used bookmarks showing up as potential matches.
However IMO the re-engineered zoom function is worth the upgrade. Entire pages zoom properly now including images. This is a winner for me.
I upgraded, found the RP plugin didn't work as Big Shed has experienced and promptly went back to the previous version. Mind you the only time I use FF is for video DL.