Audio/multimedia recommendations

[Joshua Tinnin]

OK, so I've finally moved over to FreeBSD from Linux, and I've fallen in love. 
To me, this OS makes so much more /sense/ than Linux, though I'm not 
evangelizing nor knocking anyone's choices. I realize the strength of the 
FreeBSD is on the server side, but I like it enough that I'm planning on 
using this current install as a workstation (and later I plan on using a 
combined FreeBSD/OpenBSD setup for a mail/web server network, OpenBSD being 
dedicated to firewalling). My stats are FreeBSD 5.2.1 RELEASE, KDE 3.2.3 (I 
also have Gnome but don't use it often). After toying around a bit with the 
various installed media players as well as installing XMMS (which has some 
quirky problems with KDE), I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations on 
media players, as this ain't cutting it and there are so many audio and 
multimedia ports that it's a rather daunting task trying to pick any of them. 
My previous Linux experience didn't involve much media, so I'm not familiar 
with what's popular or what works well. I'm particularly interested in any 
players which support streaming media, especially standards like Real and 
WMP. I tried going to the Real page to dl their player, after discovering 
it's no longer in ports, and there is no option for FreeBSD, and the Linux 
player is a binary - haven't tried it yet. 

Also, my mobo is an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe with an ATI Radeon 9600 XT video card. 
The mobo works fine with FreeBSD, but I haven't been able to get my video 
card to work, even though I've been through a number of steps advised on 
different sites, including building AGP into the kernel and Radeon support 
into XFree86. I've also searched through the list archives, but the answers 
given tend to vary, and the ones I've tried haven't worked. I know many 
people have asked about this issue, but I have yet to find a solution which 
works. Anyone have an answer they know works? I'm not all that interested in 
playing games on this machine or using 3D much at all, but it would be nice 
to speed up my system by actually using the video memory the card uses.

- jt