RM file to AVI or XVID converter

[appoloin]

hi again,

another question. whats a good program to use to convert .rm movies to avi or xvid?

[billgoldberg]

hi again,

another question. whats a good program to use to convert .rm movies to avi or xvid?

I'm not familiar with a .rm file.

Is that real media?

You can convert it with mencoder, but that's cli only.


sudo apt-get install mencoder

The command for converting a .rm file to avi is this:


mencoder video1.rm -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=150 -srate 44100 -af resample=44100 -o video1.avi

This is just copy/paste from another site, I don't know if this will work.

You would need to replace video1.rm with the path to the video.

For example /home/usernamer/Videos/video.rm.

Idem dito for the video1.avi.

You could try if ffmpeg can convert the file.

Install the ffmpeg version (sudo apt-get install ffmpeg) from the medibuntu repo (http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/install-audio-and-video-codecs-in-ubuntu/)(!!), and install the winff.deb file here (http://www.winff.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=34&Itemid=54).

Normally winff would be the easiest way to convert videos, but I don't know if it will handle real media files.

[OmahaVike]

i know i'm very late to the party, but had the same question and found a solution. there's a blog posting here that describes using ffmpeg and mencoder to do the trick...

http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/05/29/video-conversion-ffmpeg-mplayer/

I first did this:


mencoder MyHouse.rm -ni -o MyHouse.flv -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -srate 22050 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=300:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:l ast_pred=3 -fps 30.000 -ofps 24 -mc 1 -of lavf

and then used handbrake for the rest:


HandBrakeCLI -i MyHouse.flv -o MyHouse.mp4 --preset="Normal"

hope it helps someone out there. not a lot of documentation for converting those ten-year-old videos from RM.

[nothingspecial]

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