Streaming Media World: First Look: RealProducer Plus 8 (4)

But Wait, There’s More

The RealMedia Editor gives point and click ease to what used to be command line utilities.

Did you think I was done already? RealProducer Plus gains new tools for editing pre-encoded clips and previewing what your site visitors might see. Launch the RealMedia editor from the RealProducer Plus File menu and you start a stand alone editor that can edit your encoded media, allow you to correct your meta-information, and even merge events and image maps into the file. These capabilities are not new but they used to be limited to obscure command line utilities.

Installing RealProducer Plus adds a Bandwidth Simulator button to your RealPlayer

I wish I was more excited about the Bandwidth Simulator. Upon installing RealProducer Plus, a bandwidth simulation plug-in is installed to the RealPlayer on the same computer. This allows you to test what the site visitor will see at various data rates and packet loss conditions right from RealPlayer. The catch for this tool is that the file must be up on the actual server for the simulation to work. It would be far better to have the software be able to simulate conditions for a file right on the producer’s hard drive.