Installed RealPlayer not playing

I downloaded RealPlayer11GOLD.deb.Obtained permission to run the file as programme.Installed by usingGDebi package installerWhen trying to play a file got message that player is unable to play the fileAs shown in the details tab I added flv,dv& deb files one after the other.Now it shows that unknown components are to be added.I am unable to proceed further.As i am new to Ubuntu please instruct me step by step how to get over the problemor any other easy and unfailing way to install the player and play the same.
Thans in advance,
Arun Lele

Hi Arun,
 i have also downloaded real gold 11,the same player working fine but when totem player is working fine why you want to use this player it is also having same performance better still use vlc player. or audacious which has graphic equaliser also.
Best of luck

As totem or vlc are not playing vcd with avsec.dat files which I have and want to playthe same.You have not answered the problem of installing & playing realplayer.Please also indicate how vlc & totem can play those avsec.dat files.
Arun Lele

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After repeated resetting & reinstalling realplayer11GOLD.deb still the realplayer doesn`t play video files.Kaffene player plays only 3 out of 13 avseq.dat files in a vcd & vlc does not play any. Is there any solution?Please give guidance step by step as I am new to Ubuntu how to add components such as flv,
dvwhen everytime a new component is required to be added?Thanking you,
Arun Lele

real player is best only for playing real media files such as .rmvb etc as it cannot be played by other media players,for vcd you can mplayer etc

real player is best only for playing real media files such as .rmvb etc as it cannot be played by other media players,for vcd you can try mplayer etc

Please try gnome-mplayer and vlc...

---- i drop my notes below:

Play mp3 and dvd under Ubuntu install skype googleearth acroread and other stuffs using Medibuntu

First please install https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

You need to have extra repositories enabled..

Please first enable the universe and multiverse repository:

Open System → Administration → Software sources → [ Tab Ubuntu software ]

enable "Community-mainteined Open Source software ( universe )"
enable "Proprietary drivers for devices ( restricted )"
enable "Software restrictecd by copyright or legal issue ( multiverse )"

Close and confirm the repository reload.

Type the following command in a terminal (applications → accessories → terminal)

sudo aptitude install vlc

To get better dvd playback and optional packages here the medibuntu available software list http://packages.medibuntu.org/
you need to add the medibuntu http://www.medibuntu.org/ repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
( here the medibuntu howto https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu but see below )

In short type or better copy and paste the rows, below one row a time then press enter:

ubu_codename=$(sudo lsb_release -c | cut -d: -f 2 | sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//')
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$ubu_codename.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

Now to install, type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo aptitude install libdvdread3 libdvdnav4 libdvdcss2 regionset gnome-mplayer
sudo aptitude install non-free-codecs w32codecs
sudo aptitude install gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
sudo aptitude install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

You can also install other Medibuntu repository provided optional software http://packages.medibuntu.org/ :

sudo apt-get install skype
sudo apt-get install googleearth
sudo apt-get install acroread

Hope this helps