Fairly Realistic

I never install Real Player. I think it’s a terrible program. However, every once in a while some crazy company (name intentionally left out) creates training videos for their crazy product API (again, name intentionally left out). Anyway, I refuse to install Real Player. Even if it would allow me to watch the API training videos. A quick search suggested Real Alternative. I downloaded and installed this Real/WMP Classic hack of a program and it works like a charm. It even integrates into Firefox and IE for viewing Real files on webpages.

You do need a player that is capable of playing RealMedia. The included Media Player Classic supports it and works very well. Supported: RealAudio (.ra .rpm), RealMedia (.rm .ram .rmvb .rpx .smi .smil), RealText (.rt), ReadPix (.rp), RealMedia embedded in webpages. .smi and .smil files sometimes only play the first part of a clip. This is a limitation of the current Media Player Classic. The RealMedia Browser plugin supports Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape and Mozilla.