Help with coverting rm to avi

[zabuza220]

I need help when I use my rm converter to make my rm formats into avi its messed up with the picture going slow and the audio moving regular
can some one tell me what fram rate I should use and compresser

[Maverick-Rubik]

This should be in Video help.

Anyway, what codec are you converting to .avi with?

[Farlo]

use eo-video

www.eo-video.com

[NeoQuixotic]

I've tried a program called TINRA to covert real media files before, but the output file lost sync with the audio and video. I just tried eo-video and it couldn't convert the video but did convert the audio. The website says it supports real media G2 which is very old. I'm using rm files with rm8,9, and even 10. Either I did something wrong, or eo-video just can't do it.

Hope this helps someway ^_^

[Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]]

hmm someone pointed me to an interesting codec called RealAlternate, wich seemes to wrap RM around an AVI like structure, so any player that can play AVI seems to be able to open it.

THis makes me beleive that it may be possible to use a program like VirtualDub to process the file to AVI using this codec? maybe? worth a try....

Real alternate:
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video ... native.cfm

Virtualdub;
http://www.virtualdub.org

Oh yeah, in answer to your codec question, I would output to Xvid for distribution purposes, and Huffyuv for editing purposes.

[rose4emily]

I just have to ask:

Why are you trying to convert from .rm to .avi?

This is actually relavent, because if the purpose is to distribute a finished video there is no way to gain quality in any format conversion, and most people have players that can play .rm (as much as most of us despise it, though neither .rm or .wmv are inherently inferior (beyond being proprietary) to DivX or XviD .avi formats, they just have a tendancy of being distributed at really low bitrates that maked them look like they are inherently inferior). Hence it doesn't really make sense to do an after-the-fact conversion like that.

If you have .rm source (for some strange reason) that you want to use, but can't edit as .rm files, you should probably be converting to a lossless format like a HuffYUV .avi or PNG stream rather than a compressed DivX or XviD .avi file (.avi itself is nothing but a container format for various encoded audio and video streams, just like .mov Quicktime and .ogm Ogg Multimedia files).

If you have an .rm file that you want to watch, but can't, you need to get an .rm codec. You'd need to get a RealMedia codec to re-encode the file as well, if you don't have one, but if all you want to do is watch it you are once again best of leaving the file as is to prefent further quality degredation and just getting a RealMedia codec plugin for your player of choice (there are free ones, I believe, for Windows Media Plauer, MPlayer, and WinAMP, as well as the insideous RealPlayer iteself - if you can deal with the adware).

If, for some reason, you really do need to convert the file, I'd do it with MPlayer/MEncoder. It's free and open-source, and works on Linux/Unix, the Unix-based Mac OSX, and Windows. The Linux/Unix/Mac version can be gotten of the main site at:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

while the Windows version (it's a beta, but supposedly still works fine for most things) can be found here:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/

There's a free audio encoder for Windows called dBPowerAMP that is great for .wma/.mp3/.wav conversions, but I can't think of any mature free Windows tools for video conversion that aren't trails with bitrate limitations or ugly watermarks. MPlayer, on the other hand, can be a bit of a bear to get used to but has a lot of power and flexability and can be expanded with free codec packs to deal with every media format in popular distribution.