I just recently upgraded to Realplayer 11 and am pretty pleased with the extras. The main addition is the ability to steal/download html videos from anywhere. This works great for YouTubers.
I was able to take some old videos that I found somewhere online and load them onto my page. Not bad.
For 39.99 the realplayer plus is nice also. It gives you the ability to record in from a Mic.
I'm sure there is other software out there that will record videos/mics and I just wasn't aware of it.