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From: Yoz Grahame
Subject: back to easier targets
Date: 15:25 on 27 Apr 2005
... namely RealPlayer 10 on Windows.

In the "Open" dialog, try giving it a URL pointing at a standard Real .rpm =
file.

Had you been ludicrously over-optimistic, you'd have thought that
RealPlayer would grab the file, read the RTSP URL inside it and then
play from that.

What it will actually do is suddenly widen the window to accomodate
its internal Internet Explorer browser control, which it then uses to
grab the .rpm file, which it doesn't know what to do with, so it asks
me if I want to save it.

This is incompetence bordering on genius, and all I can do is sit
quietly in awe.

-- Yoz

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