dumb question on real player

[qu1nn]

hello
I am aware that real player offers a player for the pocket pc to be able to play *.ra audio.
However on a standard pc I try to avoid due to all of the ads, extra ports, etc.... seems like an untrustworthy media advertising media sucking machine.


is there any alternatives? plugins for TCPMP, CORE, Windows Media Player, GStreamer, etc that will allow me to play *.RA files with out the offical real player application?

For those that did install real player to windows mobile, any issues?

thanks
qu1nn