substitutes for Real and QuickTime

[ojannen2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Alternative" target="_blank
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Rea ... native.htm" target="_blank

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_Alternative" target="_blank
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Qui ... native.htm" target="_blank

Quicktime alternative may not work with firefox embedded videos.

[tubafatness]

For general video needs, I use the VLC Media Player. It seems to play nearly everything.

[MartyNeilan]

There is a reason for all those updates to Adobe. many of them are to fix security holes that could be exploited by malicious software. There was a big front-page update for Adobe about two years ago for a very critical issue.

Updates in and of themselves are not a bad thing.

I will agree that Quicktime is extremely annoying and I avoid it like the plague. This is one instance where Windows Media Player is actually the friendlier product.

[TubaTodd]

For general video needs, I use the VLC Media Player. It seems to play nearly everything.

+1 for VLC
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Here are the codecs it supports

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I have no idea if it will work 100% for either format, but it does a very good job.

[The Jackson]

I give another big plus for VLC. There are a small handful of Real-only formats, but VLC will take care of everything else. It's slim and bare-bones (no fancy crap, just the player).