"VLC is good...IMHO."
VLC=Goodness. THE best media player, hands down, and it's free. Rock solid on Windows and MAC OSX. VLC will pay clips Quicktime and WMP refuse to. (As a long-time Mac user, I'm very irked by how few codexs work in Quicktime!)
I banned RealPlayer from any computer I use years ago, and I hate that they prevailed - this will keep that shoddy, underhanded company afloat way past it's natural lifespan. I was hoping the company would just die and go away.
If everyone would just use Mpeg there would be no problems. I mean, that's why it was created - to be a standard. But some companies just want to create problems I guess.