On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:31:07 +0000, Huge wrote:

realplay \
rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio3/live/r3_dsat_g2.ra
and s/realplay/mplayer/ and waddayaknow - real-free radio :-)
gmplayer works too.

Not here, sadly.
Failed to open rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio3/live/r3_dsat_g2.ra.

Odd. But FWIW I found that [g]mplayer works for about 2 minutes and
then crashes, so it's back to realplayer again :-(


You did say 'alternatives' (plural) - are there others I'm missing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Alternative
I have no idea if this works under non-MS systems; I'm not that interested,
sorry.

Can't see any :-(