Real10 Export plugin

[thoughton]

Real recently announced a Real10 Export plugin for OS X. Someone might care

It's a beta, free registration to download.

[mhar4]

Hmm... works pretty well, with nice looking video. Shame about the hideous Realplayer interface. I suppose for a PC compatibility emergency, it might come in useful some time.

[thoughton]

Yeah I thought the quality was pretty good as well. I tried it on a Simpsons episode after reading about people raving over animation encoded to RV9. Better than xvid, so they say.

I found the playback to be very CPU intensive on my 667 G4 (it was basically at 100%) but that might be a RealPlayer problem more than anything else.

[bilestyle]

yeh alot of people have been raving about this crappy crappy format for animation for a long time, and upon testing this i stand by my rating of rm as the crappiest format on the planet, and comparable to winbloze media video and asf.

[mhar4]

With more processing grunt, bigger hard drives and cheaper DVD-Rs, for my particular uses, I find myself moving away from these high-compression formats, anyway. If a lo-bit MPEG-2 is only 4-500KB/s with perfectly good quality why bother with the extra processing stage?

[thoughton]

I fully agree mhar. I've been converting some simpsons episodes, as xvids they are about 240mb each at full resolution. If I convert to mpeg2 half D1 they are only 340mb each! I've gone with half D1, it's only a little bigger and I can directly play them on my standalone! Quality-wise I cant tell the difference, I'm loving it.

Bile, I mostly agree with you too. I cant really tell the difference in quality between rv10 and any of the mp4 variants, but the Real player stinks! I know which format I'll be watching on my laptop in future, and it's doesn't begin with R