I'm trying to make a VCD with my .RM files, but I got Tinra .03 and TINRAgui 1.3 (so I could make it user-friendly for myself), and also something called the stabelizer (stable.exe) but I haven't been able to figure out what it's for. anyway, I've got the program to run fine. I uninstalled RealOne and put on Real 8 (because I read Tinra doesn't work with RealOne) and that was fine after that. The files start to convert, but end up being unbelievably large. For example, I was trying to convert a 2MB .RM file, and I stopped the conversion after the .AVI file was over 500MB big. Does anyone understand what the problem is?

Thanks a lot

Cheers, Gordon

-- gordon (boy_makes_music@hotmail.com), January 01, 2003

Answers

AVI video files are typically massive unless some kind of compression codec is used. My guess is that tinra is producing uncompressed AVI video output. I'm not sure if you can specify a codec to use with tinra, but I doubt it. What you are seeing sounds pretty normal to me. If you can figure out how to make tinra use a codec, Huffy is a good one to use.

-- Root (root@yahoo.moc), January 02, 2003.

so if this is normal, does it mean that when I compress them to MPEG1 the size will be considerably less? or will it still be large?

-- gordon (boy_makes_music@hotmail.com), January 02, 2003.

yes, it will be a lot less. most people use TINRA to change the .rm to an uncompressed avi. Then they use e.g VirtuaDub to compress the avi, to a much smaller file (e.g using Divx codecs)

-- RavyDavy (ravy_davy_99@yahoo.com), January 08, 2003.

whit tinra you can chance the compresion

-- robin (chabo18@hotmail.com), February 24, 2003.

Does anyone know how to get Tinra to convert long RM files? I have a two hour long file and if I convert the whole thing, the video is messed up. If I convert, say, only 40 minutes, it's fine up to that point.

-- John Abrams (nospamplease@nospame.com), May 29, 2003.

john -- you'll want to split the RM into multiple files using something like RealProducer. see http://www.divx-digest. com/articles/rm2avi.html for more information.

-- Marc (marc@gurufl.net), June 01, 2003.