RealVideo to SmartMovie
I missed this story on MacOSXHints while I was away on holiday, but I just noticed it tonight. Converting RealVideo to anything else on the Mac has always been hard, but this guy is reporting success converting RealVideo internet streams to SmartMovie AVIs using the command line encoder Mencoder.
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Comments
by: beercake at August 26, 2004 3:21 PM
That's good news! It sounds like you are the author of the original MacOSXHint? Are you getting better results when you're converting a local file rather than a streamed one?
I've had no luck trying to convert realvideo in the past - Mencoder here I come!
by: thoughton at August 26, 2004 10:41 PM
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It really works, just mencoder does sometimes not a very good job (sometimes the produced files are corrupt) so my second approach is now to use mplayer instead of mencoder to first download the real-stream and then use mencoder to actually convert it to whatever
E.g.: mplayer -dumpfile out.rm -dumpstream rtsp://blabla.rm
then the real-stream can be played back using Real-Player or can be converted with mencoder.
Currently I have my own private Stream-Collection of my favorite TV-Station and will watch Evening-News, and such on my phone