Call MPlayer

[Talldog9]

The only way VLC could ever play Realmedia is by using MPlayer. Maybe an option to use mplayer with formats not supported by vlc. cross-platform soultion.
Yes, I know there is much more to it than that, just an idea.

[Arite]

Both MPlayer an VLC use the FFmpeg codecs libraries. The RealVideo codecs RV10 and RV20 are in libavcodec (part of the FFmpeg project).

Also, the features page states (see here):

VLC's 0.9.0 release will introduce support for RV30 and RV40 based upon the additions to the FFmpeg-library by one their Google Summer of Code 2007 projects.

Arite.

[Talldog9]

Whoops! nevermind.