RealPlayer SP aims for easy transfer of Web videos to portable devices

Real Networks launched the twelfth iteration of the RealPlayer reading software.

Called the "RealPlayer" SP "version of RealPlayer 11 is the new ability to bring Flash-based video from the web browser (although with the usual caveat: the river can not copy protected, which rejects most of Hollywood film and TV shows on sites like Hulu). In the "SP" as the name means "the social and portable." Great update easily transcode and transfer video to a variety of portable devices, including many blackberries models, Zune, and - via iTunes - iPod and iPhone. It also provides the ability to easily share video on the Internet social networks like Facebook and twitter, and email.

We get a brief on the initial success Beta SP. Software, you can easily download any flash video from YouTube. It was also easy to choose in advance to convert and transfer video format that is compatible with Palm improvements, so we borrow from colleagues. However, we must send a file from eleven faces, we can not run again. However, before the demo rep Real Networks successfully moved into the pre-video blackberry bold, and - through the transfer to iTunes - iPod Touch, if we find that we have isolated the problem.

Apart from early recovery from mistakes, there is another disappointment. Many of us want to save the video - in "Star Trek" episode on YouTube, no Hulu, CNET TV, and even video - all were copy protected, and therefore can not be saved. And the process is the time: download was pretty fast, as transferred to portable USB devices - but the process is rather slow transcode video for more than one or two minutes long. (To be fair, but slow transcoding is a relatively large number of native file conversion software).

RealPlayer SP beta will be available for Windows realplayer.com. Basic versions of the software will be free, and Premium Plus version - which offers H.264 video conversion, DVD and DVD - will cost $ 40. He was to compete with rival services, such as Nero Move It, format factory, DoubleTwist, and (some of them also offer social media hook). From basic version for free, then at least download and worth trying, if you wish to take the video in the way of the Internet (unless they copy protected).