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Remember RealPlayer? Grainy 128 x 128 streamed videos in 1998!
by physicsguy 11mo ago
Remember RealPlayer? Grainy 128 x 128 streamed videos in 1998!
- reaperducer 11mo agoRemember RealPlayer? Grainy 128 x 128 streamed videos in 1998! I remember when someone slapped a big "Buffering" sign over the Real Networks logo on the company's building in Seattle.
- weberer 11mo agoI never bothered trying to stream anything, but I do remember downloading 20mb episodes of Naruto in surprisingly good quality due to the .rmvb format.
- physicsguy 11mo agoThe BBC here used to put a ton of news content on it, it was pretty forward thinking really!
- deltoidmaximus 11mo agoWas RealPlayer really that horrible or was it just trying to do streaming media on an extremely low bandwidth connection without hardware accelerated and sophisticated codecs? I only really used it with a 28.8K modem netscape and Windows 95. The experience was poor but the experience viewing moderately sized images wasn't great either. I remember at the time encountering MPEG decoder add-in cards (that nobody used), although I suspect video cards started to add these features during the 1990s at some point.
- kalleboo 11mo agoI've gotten to experience using RealPlayer again this year[0] and... a lot of it was just it being really early but a lot of it was just the software being really bloated with adware and terrible design decisions. It asks for your home address when you install it, there are a bunch of ad panes you have to manually disable etc [0] https://kalleboo.com/linked/realplayer2025.png https://kalleboo.com/linked/realplayer2025.png