RealPlayer 11 for Linux now is available. The new player supports extensive list of video and audio codecs and they are really free to use on linux.
Supported Codecs
- Theora (Alpha 3 encoded content)
- Vorbis
- Ogg
- Basic SMIL 2.0
- H263
- RealPix
- RAM and RPM playlist formats
- RTSP streaming with RTP
- HTTP streaming
- RealText
- RealEvents
- RealAudio, RealVideo
- mp3
- mp4 audio (AAC unprotected only)
- Flash 4
Installation
Download RealPlayer bin file from below link and execute following command in terminal. And make sure you are in the directory where you have downloaded the .bin file.
chmod +x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
Run the bin by issuing following command.
./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
Rest of the installation process is self explanatory.