Im sure that real player is fine now. But i do remember that the free version released back then was really bad... There is windows wmv format that can be streamed easily but im not sure how mac computers would handle this. But at a guess it would probably be fine. There is also the mac .mov format....

Hi Pete - i do some video editing and use adobe premiere. basically its like photoshop but for video. So its certainly something to consider but takes a long time (for me anyway) to get to grips with it. As for real player...... The real player is scum of the earth software. Sorry to put it this way...