Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer.

All RealMedia formats (.ra, .rm, .rmvb, .ram, .rpm, .rv,.rp, .rt, .smi, .smil, etc.) are supported, including streaming content and RealMedia content that is embedded in webpages.

Limitations:

* .smi and .smil files only play the first part of a clip.
* RealMedia DirectShow splitter does not work with streaming content. You must use Media Player Classic to play streaming content.

VirtualDub is a video capture / processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. It is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

Imagine an application which does everything VirtualDub can do, but runs on various platforms, supports a lot of containers, comes with all Codecs you need built-in and doesn´t use the nasty VfW interface. That applications is Avidemux!

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It´s graphical user interface looks pretty similar to VirtualDub and most features known from VirtualDub are available too. Avidemux supports a great number of file types, such as AVI, MPEG/VOB/TS , MP4, ASF, OGM, MKV and FLV. At the same time it supports a wide range of Video and Audio formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP, H.264/AVC, DV, HuffYUV, MP3, AAC, AC-3 and Vorbis. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Video-DVD or (S)VCD compliant streams can be created with easy-to-use “Auto” wizards.

What encoders are supported by Avidemux?

Avidemux comes with a great number of video encoders built-in, such as Xvid, x264, libavcodec MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1 and DV. Also it includes various audio encoders, like Lame, FAAC, Aften and OggVorbis. Please note that Avidemux does not support the platform-specific and outdated ´Video for Windows´ interface and there is a great chance it never will! This means there is no way to use DivX (or other VfW Codecs) with Avidemux! So please don´t ask for DivX support. Nevertheless files encoded wit DivX can be edited in Avidemux and MPEG-4 files created by Avidemux play with the DivX decoder.

What video filters are supported by Avidemux?

Avidemux comes with a wide range of video filters built-in. Most of those filters were ported from MPlayer, VirtaulDub or Avisynth. There are filters for Cropping, Resizing (including Lanczos), Deinterlacing (Yadif, TDeint, KernelDeint, DGBob, etc), Denoising (fluxsmooth, (hq)denoise3d, stabilize, etc), Color Correction and many more. Also there is a new plugin system for ´external´ video filters now!

Recent SVN Changes:

# 3579 - [QT4] Chris Mac Gregor : new file for sliders
# 3578 - [DialogFactory+Fileselector] Chris Mac Gregor : Fix for default suffix + fix for slider
# 3577 - [Container] Fix javascript dummy container save/load
# 3576 - [Container] Dummy container, useful for testing and Chris MacGregor weird filters
# 3575 - [Filter] Chris MacGregor funky filters
# 3574 - [Translations] De update (J. Martin)
# 3573 - [GTK/Filters] Chris Mc Gregor : Try do display filters with very long comment
# 3572 - [Cache] Chris Mc Gregor : Accept filter without conf
# 3571 - [Cache] Chris Mc Gregor : protect against multiple includes
# 3570 - [MP4] fix mem leak + cosmetics
# 3569 - [Debug] Nvwa, part 2
# 3568 - [Debug] Nvwa memory leak detector, enabled only in debug mode and with FIND_LEAKS defined
# 3567 - [TDeint] Print some infos
# 3566 - [DialogFactory] Take into account capabilities of codec, remove CBR mode for lavc mpeg1/2 (does not work)
# 3565 - [FLV] simple configuration dialog + [LAVC] some fixes about lavc encoding
# 3564 - [Automake] add flv output
# 3563 - [Output] Flv output

This is a full package of MPlayer for Windows and the MPUI front-end.
This package contains everything you´ll need in one single download!

Note: The anti-virus software “AVG Free Edition” seems to cause the installer to fail, because MPlayer cannot be terminated. If you experience such problems, please send a bug report to AVG…

Key features are:

* The award-winning OpenSource Movie Player available for Windows now
* Plays almost every Audio/Video format that exists today, try out yourself!
* Intuitive user-interface, no need to run MPlayer from the command-line
* Two front-ends included: SMPlayer (by RVM) and MPUI (custom build)
* Full multi-language and Unicode support, more than 20 languages included
* Self-contained “all-in-one” installer (made with NSIS)
* More than 192 Video- und 85 Audiocodecs supported natively! (full list)
* Latest optimized MPlayer builds by Celtic Druid for best performance
* Binary Codec Package for MPlayer included, no need to download/install manually
* Optimized builds for: Athlon-XP, Athlon-64, Pentium-4, Prescott (Core/Core2), Pemtium-M
* Also includes a “Generic” build with automatic Runtime CPU Detection

Recent Updates:

* [2007-09-08] SMPlayer updated to v0.5.53
* [2007-08-26] SMPlayer updated to v0.5.43
* [2007-08-19] MPlayer builds updated to latest SVN revision: 2006-08-19
* [2007-08-01] SMPlayer updated to v0.5.29-qt4 and adjusted installer
* [2007-07-29] MPlayer builds updated to latest SVN revision: 2006-07-20
* [2007-06-27] MPlayer builds updated to latest SVN revision: 2006-06-27
* [2007-06-24] SMPlayer updated to v0.5.20
* [2007-06-19] MPlayer builds updated to latest SVN revision: 2006-06-18
* [2007-06-16] Installer fixes
* [2007-06-16] SMPlayer updated to v0.5.14
* [2007-06-11] QT4 libs are now statically linked to smplayer.exe
* [2007-06-11] SMPlayer updated to v0.5.10
* [2007-06-10] Added new SMPlayer fron-end (Full Package only)