Playing Real Media without installing Real Player?
 

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Beats me. I suppose the best thing you can do is ignore, not select, anything that contains the horrible realplayer.

I know this did not answer your question, but, realplayer is just so bad, I hate it. If more people tell the vendors that realplayer sucks, maybe it will go away.

Right, fungus will go away also. Sorry I don't have a fungus cure for realplayer.

Something I installed recently played .ram and .ra files also ... hmm, I want to guess at Windows Media Player 9 or Winamp ... at a blank here, and yeah ... I hate Realplayer as much as you, and I hear the pain.

I'm almost positive you need real player. I think wmp may be able to play older ram files, but there may have been a lawsuit, not really sure. Anyway, I had to install it if I wanted to listen to ra files under linux. Man, what a crappy player that P.O.S. is.

Yay propriatary audio formats!

It sucks, but it's no where near as bad as Quicktime.

I forget what player it is, but one of them (I think xine, or maybe mplayer, or perhaps xmms, I really forget :p) has a reaplayer extention. You have to install the libraries of course but no need to install the player. This is what I've done in Linux but I haven't had to play RealMedia yet so I'm not sure which player it is.

As for Windows, if there's a way in Linux I would think there's probably a way there as well, but I could be wrong.

Xine does it fine for me. Mplayer might do it too. (in linux)

Media Player Classic can play rm files if the codecs are installed...
http://vobsub.edensrising.com/mpc.php

HelixDNA Player will do it too.
https://www.helixcommunity.org/2002/intro/client

try VLC , its plays all types of formats and is availible for all types of OSs.

mplayer for linux has realplayer extentions.... i know they have a mplayer for Windows, but i dunno if the extention is avaliable.

I hate realplayer too. Quicktime isn't a virus like realplayer, it's just coded poorly.

Apple purposely doesnt code Quicktime for Windows to the same standards as they do on Mac OS. Its probably for the same reason that Internet Explorer on Mac isnt as good as Internet Explorer on Windows (features and standards wise at least). As for realplayer, its not that good on any platform that I have used it on.

Real Player does suck ha a lot of trouble with it. Just got a new player JETAUDIO I can now listen to my favorite radio station thats only support real player. I can record convert file and i think it plays real audio it can convert files to ie check it out
http://www.jetaudio.com/

I dunno about Quicktime being that bad. I used to hate it, but recent versions have given me no problems.