You know I HATE to be forced using proprietary protocols and formats. Nobody should ever support a protocol for which a legal Free Software reference implementation is not available. All violations should be punished with Death by iPod Stoning.
In spite of their so-called community efforts, Real never convinced me (or rms, but that’s understood). Too bad the need to play the occasional flipping .rm file on Linux comes whenever you least expect it. So yes, there’s a RealPlayer 10 Gold for Linux, but what the…? No ALSA support? Are you joking or what?
So I did some research, and (not nearly as easily as you may think) I found out that there are nightly builds for RealPlayer.
And guess what: ALSA support!
Sweet. Well… almost. 
cat >/dev/null is 
Chris Spencer
Thanks for the tip. I’m on Fedora, and for some reason, Helix is unable to play anything, much less RM files. I hope the nighly build is better. The great irony is the Xine plays WMV files perfectly. Never thought I’d prefer a format by Microsoft.
Chris Spencer
Just tried the nightly build, and the lsb >= 3.1 dependency is missing on Fedora 5. Oh well.
andrew
@Chris: darn.