Free RealPlayer Alternative to Play RealMedia Files without RealPlayer
Still using RealPlayer to play each of your realmedia files? Then you surely know how much the system resource it eats up everytime you run it. Unfortunately, RealMedia formats are proprietary, which makes you unable to play it in other video players. There are always a solution, however. If you want to be able to play RealMedia formats without Real Player, you can alternatively download and install Real Alternative, which is better.

What Real Alternative does is simply adding the necessary codecs to play Real Media files. This codec package allows you to play all RealMedia formats (.ra .rm .rmvb .ram .rpm .rv .rp .rt .rnx .smi .smil etc.) using any video of your own choice. It also supports RealMedia content that is embedded in web pages.

The download packages are divided into two separate parts. The full version contains the codecs and Media Player Classic, while the lite one contains only the codecs. Both are free and support Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, and Windows 7.
Download Real Alternative to play RealMedia formats without RealPlayer