Real Player file downloads

[thegoose47]

I recently viewed some video clips that allowed you to download. When I clicked to download,the files were downloaded to the Real Player library. They were downloaded with the extension .ivr. Does anyone know what these files are and how to convert them to AVI or WMV or something more common ?

[redwudz]

.irv is a extension from RealNetworks, Inc. But there's not much information about it. It may be a copy protected format or similar to DRM. Probably some form of RMVB video. RMVB is difficult enough to convert without any added problems.

Some information on RealVideo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealVideo

But one of our members may be familiar with the format.

And welcome to our forums.

[Midzuki]

The RealPlayer stores the downloaded files in two different ways: Flash files are saved in native .FLV format that can be played back either with the player or any other video player that supports the Flash video format. Other formats are transcoded on the fly to RealNetwork video (.IVR) files that use the latest RealVideo codec.

{ source: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070626-first-look-realplayer-11-beta.html }

And more importantly:

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic337448.html#1756332


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