RealPlayer 10 Codec Question

[David Mangani]

Hi all,

    I recently downloaded RealPlayer10 for linux. Over all it seems to 
work pretty good. The problem I am having is that some sites, actually 
alot of sites seem to use older codecs. The new RealPlayer won't play 
them and the error it gives says that this site is using older 
unsupported codecs. It then advises to tell the site in question to 
update its codecs. Not a real likely option. It gives no option to 
download and install the older codecs. Anyone know how this can be done, 
or where to get the older codecs from? I hope you don't tell me to use 
Mplayer etc. I would like to get this working. On the windows side of 
things, I click the same link and the player searches for and installs 
the older codecs. There must be a way to do the same in Linux.

Thanks in advance.
Dave