rm files in, and set the conversion settings. Once you have RealPlayer installed, open up the converter, drag your. Save yourself the trouble and use a Windows box. The mac version will hang at 95% encoding for most files, and that’s pretty annoying. Sounds too good to be true, right? It is.įor larger files, it only works well on Windows, and it doesn’t give you a lot of options for encoding. Thankfully, Real recently came out with an updated version of RealPlayer that has a handy little thing in it called RealPlayer Converter. You’d have to use mencoder and the longest, most convoluted command-line arguments you’ve ever seen. If you were trying to do this back in the day this would be a major pain. Step two: Convert the real media files to mp4 rm files are actually accessible via HTTP, so I just did a little find/replacing in the URLs and built a list with wget to download them. rm via SCP or a file transfer mechanism of our choice. Since we’re not stream ripping someone else’s content (that would be wrong, dontcha know), we can just log in to the server and based on that file path it’s looking for, grab the. rm file, but it can be a little hard to get via rtsp. ram file in a text editor, you’ll see it points to rtsp://:8080/translocations/media/Gowda.rm, which is the location for our real media streaming server here at the Walker.The thing we really want is the. What it is, is a pointer to the streaming location for the file. ram file, you’d notice that it’s about 59 bytes clearly not enough to be the actual video file. The URLs for those things probably look something like In our scenario, you have a list of 80 or so real media files that you need to convert.
Thankfully, there is a better way, and I will lay it out for you. But it’s mostly programs that don’t actually work and forum posts that are no longer relevant or strewn with blocking issues. If you do a little googling on how to convert real video into h.264 mp4, you’ll find lots of programs and forum posts claiming they know to do it. What you really want is that video to exist in an mp4 so you can stream it to a flash player, or eventually use in html5 (once they work that codec stuff out).
So let’s say you have a pile of real media video that was recorded sometime earlier in the decade when real video was still relevant, but you realize any sane person these days doesn’t have RealPlayer installed and can’t view it.
First of all, I’d like to apologize to all the people on twitter that follow me and had to endure my ranting about the trials and tribulations of converting real media files: I’m sorry.
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