replace RealPlayer

[Ed Jabbour]

On Thursday 13 March 2008 4:51 am Brian Astill wrote:
> Is there a replacement that will play ABC radio streams, eg
> http://abc.net.au/adelaide/onair/891stream.ram
> http://abc.net.au/streaming/newsradio.ram
>
> Realplayer 10 Gold is the last of the free Linux offers and it is
> not reliable in 64 bit Ubuntu Gutsy and will not run at all in 32
> bit Gutsy.
>
> VLC works wonderfully on http://mbs-sa.org:8000/listen.pls but
> cannot handle those ram files.  So far I haven't found anything
> that can.

Those files play fine using RealPlayer downloaded from real.com.  What's the 
problem?