Joining RM and WMV ? Please help

[Andrew]

I know there's not many people out there still like real player, but I do have som clips that I wanted to join. Can someone teach me how? those clips either end by .ra, .rm, or .ram .
Bytheway .. I also have some clips ending with .WMV that I wanted to join, do u guys have any idea on how?

[Andrew]

oh . come on ... no body knows how ?

[lokee]

ok first of all your going to want to convert all the clips to the same format . use TMPGEnc and convert them all over to mpg files vcd type files should all work fine than u can join them using the mpeg tools offered in TMPGEnc hope this helps

[mysticgohan17]

its nearly impossible to convert real video to any other format.

[SaSi]

its nearly impossible to convert real video to any other format.

Not correct. It is difficult, however it's very possible to do that.

I also have had several (funny-clips and stuff) I wanted to convert to AVI and then to anything.

The problem with Realvideo is that it is a streaming format without a constant framerate. The trick for any program trying to do the conversion is to do "grabs" of frames and achieve a constant framerate output.

Tinra (and TinraGUI) are the best programs I used for Real Video to AVI. ASFTools v.3.1 are the best programs to convert ASF and WMV to avi.

The only catch is that for Realvideo to AVI you need to have a fast machine (so that no frames are dropped and you don't loose sync). I've never had any problems with a P4/1.8+ and also made good conversions on a P3/800 provided Tinra was reading the RM file from one drive and was writing to another. Also, NO OTHER PROGRAM MUST BE RUNNING while you do the conversion if you don't have a very fast CPU.

The tools above convert to AVI (I used DivX as the AVI encoder with a constant quality of 2). From there you can do what you want.

[txpharoah]

You can use the program EO-VIDEO to convert from REAL to MPEG. It comes as a demo, and does not add watermarks. Just finish your project within 20 days.

Then convert your WMV to MPEG in TMPGenc. (May need to rename to ASF if it will not open, that's reported to help that error.)

Use TMPGenc to join the two MPEG files. (Be sure both encoders matched MPEG specs, else you'll need to transcode the EO-VIDEO-made file.)

Viola! New MPEG.