to be installed (or at least its DLLs, if not the actual player). However, FFmpeg's libav* libraries (and its DirectShow counterpart ffdshow) can play RealVideo and do not require RealPlayer or any parts thereof.

The latest version of RealPlayer that can run on Windows 9x is RealPlayer 8; but this version can be easily modified to play RealPlayer 9 and 10 files, by the manual addition of just three .dll files (codecs and plugins), from