Realplayer downloaded to the desktop and did nothing else.

I have gone through synpatic under nvidia, realplayer, mozilla and
totem and seen nothing obvious

Totem is installed and apparently I will have to remove it for
iplayer. That looks easy in principle but being me, I could easily get
it wrong. Hardly worth the risk with the rapidity of BBC repeats. So
much for my plans to join the much hyped new age of media choice!

I might try ticking totem,plugins-extra but that reads for TV and we
do not even get a TV signal here. (Coventry but the trees block the
transmitter!- thanks Virgin Media)