I would like to watch some rmvb files in linux. I have already installed the realplayer, but still can't play.

Please, can you guys give me some suggestion on this?

Understand rmvb is kind of proprietory codec that free software world doesn't really like, but those movies are in that format...and that's the reason i want the codec.

Please help, thanks.

Ooops, guys, i think real player can play it by itself la, the player that automatically launched was the Helix player....which seems doesn't play any common file at all...avi, wmv,...whatever. anyway, i think i can play rmvb leh.

But here is my problem, and this problem deserves a new thread by itself:

I am currently using Ubuntu 5.10, and now here is what i encountered:

when i double click the rmvb file, it lunches Helix player...fine...
When I right click the rmvb file, choose real player and open, the realpayer never lunch at all...and even worse, I goto Application-->Sound&Vedios-->Realplayer, click the icon...wait...the cursur shows that the CPU is working, and after half a minutes, the cursur shows CPU was done, but still nothing happened....

Really headache about it, anyone please help me out.

same thing over here...
does mplayer work?

yeah mplayer worked on my 32bit arch PC but won't work on my 64bit arch PC. Actually I need the 86_64bit codec, does anyone know where I can get it?