New RealPlayer to have new video features
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 31, 2007 at 3:09pm
RealNetworks has unveiled its RealPlayer, a media player designed to offer one-click downloads of online videos from thousands of web sites. It also allows you to burn videos to DVDs and CDs (using RealPlayer Plus), and share video links with friends.
Most major formats are supported, including QuickTime, Real, Windows Media, and flash. The free player will be released in June. RealPlayer will first be released for Windows, and will work with both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Real plans a version for the Mac to be released later in the year.
You can download multiple videos simultaneously with RealPlayer. You can also start downloading in the middle of watching a video, and the entire video will be captured.
The Video CD format used by RealPlayer can be played in most DVD players. You can send links of your favorite videos to others with the “Share with a Friend” feature. The link that arrives in their friends’ email will direct them to the online source of the video content their friend downloaded. RealPlayer will only download/record video that’s not protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems.
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