Escape from RealMedia

Pete · Fri 15 Feb, 2008 22.37

Does anyone know anything that will successfully convert real files into flash EASILY?

My computer just barfed having converted it into 3gp but then was unable to get it from 3gp into flv.

Is it possible to do this in one step rather than fifteen? I want rid of real off my machine forever.

Bail · Fri 15 Feb, 2008 22.58

I think EOVideo is the thing I used to use, I've given up on real player entirely now though.

Stuart* · Fri 15 Feb, 2008 23.47

What have they done to RealPlayer? I downloaded the basic RealPlayer v.11 to my new PC last month and it's a load of shit! I have 100s of .ram files on my 2nd Hard Disk which now play in very low quality. I was gutted at the thought of having to ditch them all as useless, but perhaps this convertion program is a solution.

Nini · Sat 16 Feb, 2008 02.35

StuartPlymouth wrote:What have they done to RealPlayer?

Phnar, what do you mean "done"? Surely it's been shit since version 3 so can't really get much worse beyond reducing quality.... Ah, see what you did there.

Pete · Sat 16 Feb, 2008 13.27

I tried 11 last night too, it was HORRENDOUS.

Oddly however this morning I'm having visions of Nick Harvey in a cowboy hat and myself as a fisherman. Could anyone suggest a reason why this could be?

lukey · Sat 16 Feb, 2008 14.02

You may want to try http://www.media-convert.com - if you're trying to convert in bulk it probably won't be the most efficient way, but it seems to work for most format-to-format scenarios, not that I'd completely trust it with some of my more sensitive transcoding needs. The .rm input profile seems to work with .rmvbs as well.

cdd · Sat 16 Feb, 2008 15.12

lukey wrote:my more sensitive transcoding needs

*tee hee hee*

--Oh.

Pete · Sat 16 Feb, 2008 17.01

lukey wrote:http://www.media-convert.com.

yay, that'll do. i'd have prefered one I could host myself but nevertheless.

http://www.hymagumba.com/jaron.flv

ah, that's where the fisherman thing was coming from. bbcodes flv43 and flv169 you say? goodness.

Jamez · Sat 16 Feb, 2008 17.36

Hehehe! Whatever happened to Ison?

It's like he disappeared from the face of the planet.

Jamez · Sat 16 Feb, 2008 17.41

http://www.stopbadware.org/reports/repo ... er01282008

Lorns · Sat 16 Feb, 2008 17.42

Hymagumba wrote:
lukey wrote:http://www.media-convert.com.
yay, that'll do. i'd have prefered one I could host myself but nevertheless.

http://www.hymagumba.com/jaron.flv

ah, that's where the fisherman thing was coming from. bbcodes flv43 and flv169 you say? goodness.

How brilliant! That raised a genuine LOL moment.