How do you burn those mediaplayer and realplayers to vcd format so u can play it on vcd's. Please help me.......

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-- Eldridge Agustin (dridge_a@hotmail.com), December 18, 2000

Answers

It's not possible, there is no converter that will convert real media to MPEG-1. Even if it was possible, real media's quality is so bad that making it into an MPEG-1 file would make the quality even worse

-- Victor DeLarose (meso@mc.net), December 18, 2000.

Agreed. Both are ment to be for streaming media content via the internet.
But if you must?
The windows media files can be converted.
It is a non-hacked codec. (The more common 'hacked-version' one you may have heard of is called Divx)
While the quality of Divx is not great, it is outstanding for sharing movies via the internet due to it's compression. You can fit an entire 2 hour movie on a single CDR.
If you go to www.vcdhelp.com or www.vcdhelper.com and foloow the How To Links it will explain how to do it, You will also need lots of Hard Drive Space.
Now for Real Player media it is more diffcult.
and again it is intended for internet streaming media and thus the low quality.
*Note:* I hated Real Player from the start due to all the spyware the install on your machine without asking. They have been brought to court over it allready and NOW have to tell you they monitor what you are doing on the internet if you use their software.
Anyway.......
If you look thru many of the posts here people are using a screen capture utility. Snagit seems to be the most popular. Then you have to capture the audio as well. Look at www.softseek.com and get a trial version of snagit and an audio capture app. Maybe total recorder for the audio. This can be found at softseek to. You will need a fast pc to do the capture of audio and video. There is no "Press The Magic Button" software to do either conversion.

-- Billy boy boy boy (kilingspam@aol.com), December 18, 2000.

THE ONLY TIME I WILL EVER DEFEND REAL MEDIA IS NOW: i too saw and have alot fo clips that look like garbage, but wuite recently i picked up all of the family guy episodes on this format and they do not look bad at all. I then did some real ending of a short film and that came out very good as well. I think when most people encode with real they do not use the max settings for it so the rersult they do get is poor. Also when using snagit, you do not have to use another audio capture as snagit allows the capture of the audio as well and it does work, I am running 550mhz and it runs fine for me

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), December 18, 2000.

WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD ANYONE ARCHIVE ANYTHING IN A REAL MEDIA FORMAT TO BEGIN WITH? PERHAPS A ROOKIE TO THE VIDEO WORLD, BUT OTHER THAN THAT THEIR IS NO EXCUSE. I GUESS IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER ANYWAY. MICROSOFT IS UNVAILING A NEW STREAMING [SCREAMING'] MEDIA IN A FEW MONTHS ANYWAY. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD DVD QUALITY MOVIES ON THE INTERNET. NO MORE VIDEO RENTALS. I AM SURE THE DSL & CABEL MODEM MARKET SHOULD SKYROCKET.

-- USER-1 (USER1@AOLAHIA.NET), December 19, 2000.

i think your behind a little, you can already download dvd like quality, and movies themselves course you need a dvd burner for that.... i have no idea why anyone would encode in real format, i hate it, but wanted to test a few things out with it. it is good for those of us with 56k modems that have to upload clips to the web, but other wise then that..

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), December 20, 2000.

I think you all are out of rationality. There are certain times in which you use real media, for instance, when encoding cartoons or other animation. Real media is also good for streaming over the web, but one thing about real media is certain: it was never intended to be high quality... only to be a way to compress data enough so people would be able to stream it or download it on the internet without waiting for hours to see it. I'm very surprised at the quality I have seen from some rm clips I've downloaded... they are a lot better than asf's and even some divx clips... but the truth is that MPEG-1,2 or divx compression of media (that is not animated) at 352x240 will blow away any real media quality out there.... but you see, that's not the point, since realmedia is small enough and streamable enough to have advantages in storage space and download time. Don't bash the format just because the people who made it are shrewd. There is a time and a place for every fomat, and real media is definitely NOT an exception. You act like a lot of unprofessional punks when you start these wars over "which is better." Everything has advantages and disadvantages, and if you're even halfway intelligent, you should know this. Please forgive my rudeness, but I must speak my mind.

-- Joshua Michaels (pointmass@yahoo.com), December 26, 2000.

Actually Real Media has improved a LOT since the days when all it did serve was crappy video. I use Real Producer as a VCR to capture video from my WinTV card since I couldn't find any other mpeg compressor and it will compress video using MPEG-4 DivX codecs into a real media file. The quality is quite excellent if not better than a lot of the asf's floating around out there and even on par with the divX ripped movies floating around the net... true, Real Player still sucks for streaming, but if you're on a LAN or want to download a video clip, its still quite useful.

-- Steve Chung (babyfacexd@yahoo.com), February 02, 2001.

I'm trying to capture some frames from a Real Video file using snagit and all I get is a black screen. I've tried other products as well and get the same result. Any ideas?

Please email me.

Thanks

-- Glenn (glenn@hollywoodhorns.com), March 03, 2001.

If it is in .rm format, you can use TINRA.

http://www.angelfire.com/rock/motar/sounds/convert.html

-- MOTAR the imperious (motar@operamail.com), March 23, 2003.