Reviews of RealPlayer for Linux

1. 
   PagingDrLeoMarvin

   Reviewing 11.0 (Nov 11, 2008)

   I don't like it. I much prefer their approach with their Helix player, instead.
2. 
   Aires

   Reviewing 10 (Oct 14, 2005)

   With the new agreement between Real Networks and Microsoft I expect things to get better and better now. Keep up the good work - well done on a fantastic player and congratulations for developing it from what RealPlayer used to be to what it's now become.
3. 
   flashhh

   Reviewing 10 (Jul 25, 2005)

   I'm giving it 5 stars, because i like realplayer for Windows.
   But keep it going! I'm sure in future it will be better!
4. 
   johnk119

   Reviewing 10 (Mar 11, 2005)

   Real's products have always been what i'd consider "bloat-ware". They usually include unnecessary tasktray icons and advertisements. Their player is ineffective at playing many media formats and their proprietary format offers no benefits i'm aware of.
5. 
   mmaccana

   Reviewing 7.0 Beta 2 (May 23, 2000)

   Quite liked it. It's nice to see Real is actually doing a proper Linux standard port - ie, packages rather than dodgy tarballs. GTK or QT would be nice too, but I guess Real like their own interface. It's also a neat tie in with their Realserver / Redhat bundle.
   
   What's bad; I want a version eight. I want to save anything to my hard disk, I want Real, Quicktime and WMA codecs in the one product, I want KDE and GNOME icons within the RPM.
   I want the ****er to get into the new millenium. Linux [or Redhat at least] has Truetype fonts. Real should use them.
   
   And I see no reason to support Glibc 2.0. Nobody else does and it holds the product back.
   
   It still seems amazingly obvious that Quicktime seems to have the best video encoder on the market. I wish Apple would keep up with Real.

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