real player
RealPlayer is a development of the company Real Networks for direct playback of streaming media like RealAudio and RealVideo without intermediate download.
Real Networks uses its own compression methods in the compression, which ensure a good audio playback. In more recent developments, the so-called 2nd generation (G2), a scaling of the available transmission bandwidth takes place. G2 is based on the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language( SMIL) and is suitable for multimedia presentations.
The RealPlayer supports various real-time and transport protocols such as the User Datagram Protocol( UDP), the Realtime Transport Protocol( RTP) and the Realtime Streaming Protocol( RTSP). It can run on both personalcomputers and smartphones.