On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 09:52:29 +0100, in uk.sci.astronomy , "aj"
wrote:

i have just realised i can watch episodes of the sky at night online at the
bbc,they only seem to be watchable on realplayer,i already have windows
media player & quick time & dont want to download another,is there any way
round this?

The BBC transmit all their stuff using Realplayer. You can capture the
RM stream then convert it to AVI via a variety of fairly complex
methods, but really, why not just install the BBC-ised version of
Realplayer?
Mark McIntyre
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