Playing videos in safari

Could someone please help me as i am new to macs and do not understand why i am unable to view videos in safari. I have downloaded flip 4 mac and real player but on certain websites (cbs.com) the videos refuse to play. at first a message popped up stating that MIME plug-in 'audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin' was missing. then i downloadded real player and the mesage is no longer being displayed but a tiny blue box with a question mark in the middle pops up where the video is supposed to be played. i honestly don't know what to do next. Any help is appreciated...thanx!
Mac book 13 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Oh, yeah, I tried to use innertube once, too. The video just doesn't load.
I poked around the page, and found a link, "Player Settings" in the upper right just above the viewing screen. There is a choice to use Windows Media Player or Real Player. I have WMP 9 installed, but the sniffer can't find it, I guess. The settings dialog says WMP is not installed.
I went here to download it again.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/mac/mp9/default.aspx
This is the Mac OS X version; MS will not be supporting nor upgrading this program for Mac from now on. That might be my problem.
I haven't used Real Player because, for some reason, it doesn't work on my computer. I have Flip4Mac so I can play Windows Media in QuickTime. There's a link for that here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx
You might have to select Windows Media Player for Mac OS X in the pull-down menu; it will redirect the page.
I'm going to investigate the RealPlayer track a little more. Let me know if the WMP direction works better for you.

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