For all the UI badness Real Player had some impressive compression support, at least back in the day. I remember watching the stream of a launch of one of the e

For all the UI badness Real Player had some impressive compression support, at least back in the day. I remember watching the stream of a launch of one of the early ISS modules over what was effectively a dialup connectio. The quality was pretty good for that and you could see what was going on pretty well.