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RealPlayer Adds Format Conversion, Social Networking

Posted on June 24, 2009 |

In the early days of media on the Internet, RealPlayer was the indispensable tool for playing postage stamp-sized videos on your PC. Today, the Real Networks software is one media player among many, but the old dog keeps learning new tricks.

real_logo.gifThe last version of RealPlayer acquired the ability to record streaming video, such as that from YouTube, for offline playback. The newest offering, RealPlayer SP, released today as a public beta, adds the ability to share video through social networking sites such as Facebook, and, more interestingly, to reformat the saved video so that it can be viewed on a wide variety of mobile devices.

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