.rm Conversions to .avi.... Can we cut the size back down?

[Yogi_Bear_79]

I've been trying to find South Park episodes. 99% of them are in .rm format averageing about 35Mb. When I convert with TINRA, they end up over 2Gb as an .avi file! Then when I try to use TMPGEnc it fails, or rather I can see a faint image while it's converitng, but it's a faint image of something other than South Park! I've downloaded examples from various sources all with the same results. Is there a fix? Am I doing something wrong? Or, do I need to be patient and look for the DivX & .avi files to begin with?

TIA

[kitty]

From the Tinra page:

When you convert a RealMovie the output avifile will have framerate information unintelligible to your directshow filters and thus will not play correctly. You need to use the length of the output audio to determine the framerate and length of the output video. Open the avifile you created with TINRA in VirtualDub, select the video tab then select framerate from the dropdown menu. Check "Change so video and audio durations match". Ensure that video is set to full processing mode. You should apply any filters and compression at this time so you dont have to decompress the video again. Save your avi.

I found this step crucial. Take the huge avi after this step & encode in tmpgenc or other program.