Real Media to DVD

[bLuE_71]

Can it be done and what tools would I use I know one of you guys on this site knows how to do it. Thanks for the help in advance.

[bilestyle]

clearly you havent searched the forums at all.. if you had you would know there is no solution... there is no way to re-encode RM to anything else.. and why in the world would u want to put that awful quality video onto a dvd anyways? the quality isnt going to get better, its going to remain the awful quality of the source file... i will never understand the desire to put such terrible quality onto such a superior format..... the only solution anyone would be able to throw at you is attempt to use snapz pro to capture the video and audio hijack to capture the audio.. good luck .. if u can even get that to work it wont be worth the effort and the crappy end product. trust me

[galactica]

agreed. You can do with snapzPro and the 2.0 does have better video capture, but ive done it and belive me its not easy.

Sure you can get the video file
and your audio file, but man syncing them is a chore! again doable, but the quality is going to be really low.

[deadsierra]

but the quality is going to be really low.

Its real media. The quality is always low.

However, I think that the new Snapz Pro has its own edition of Audio Hijack built in, so it shouldn't have any syncing issues, aside from the ones incurred by editing.

[bilestyle]

yeh i wonder how real is even still in business.. that has always by far been hands down the worst media format ever... asf wmv and rm duke it out!.. although not a month goes by where someone asks how to convert one of these crappy formats to something worth watchin and it always perplexes me as to why...

[AntnyMD]

One word: porn.

[mhar4]

One word: porn.

Hey! the BBC posts its television news reports as streamed RM files. It would be great to save and archive relevant ones in another format. Any other format... Then again, it would be even better if the BBC used something else, like MPEG-4. Real Media is the Church of Scientology of software companies.

Which would make Microsoft the Vatican. Apple?

[WiseWeasel]

Why, Apple represents knowledge, or course, the enemy of religion. The Vatican is quite the accurate analogy for MS.
Re: Converting RM to DVD; let us all point at bLuE_71 and laugh. I shudder to imagine the quality of the output. Making a DVD out of RM content is pure blasphemy.

[MrRalphMan]

You can convert RM movies to another format using EO Video,

A link to their site is http://www.eo-video.com/

Paul

[thoughton]

You can convert RM movies to another format using EO Video,

A link to their site is http://www.eo-video.com/

Paul

Sweet. How about a link to the Mac version?

Oh wait ... there isn't one.

[bilestyle]

it really wouldnt be sweet tho.. i shudder to think what kind of a brain dead moron would waste his time writing a program to convert such an awful format to anything else....ah a PC user... now it all makes sense

[bLuE_71]

I can do without the ******* comments I have entire south park seasons on rm and I was wanting to do something with them.

[AntnyMD]

One word: porn.

Hey! the BBC posts its television news reports as streamed RM files.

OK, so it turns out its South Park and not porn. Still far from BBC news, which I found completely laughable the first time I saw your reply six hours ago. I was gonna say something about the British being humourless, but we still need your support in the war on terror.

[terryj]

Why not just use Limewire, Acqulite, or one of the other P2Ps and
get .avi's of the episodes you need? At least then the quality will be better, and you can transcode these to QT with Divx Doctor II.

Also try usenet...I've seen plenty of SP episdoes up, and I'd rather spend
the time to acquire better files than to try and transcode RM into something usable.

[mhar4]

OK, so it turns out its South Park and not porn. Still far from BBC news, which I found completely laughable the first time I saw your reply six hours ago. I was gonna say something about the British being humourless, but we still need your support in the war on terror.

hey, laugh away, I am Australian, and ABC news is streamed in WMV as well as RM. I guess you need our support, too, although we might be going all Spaniard before the year is out. The British, btw, are worse than humorless - they have no sense of irony.[/quote]

[bilestyle]

yah man you can get all the south parks in mpeg and/or avi ... it would be much better to just do that then to try and convert those crappy RM to put on DVD... if you go t hrough that much effort and then see the end product u will probably puke at the awful quality and wish u had spent the time getting formats worth watching.

[pixeljammedia]

What are the copyright issues here? If you were able to tape the south parks and convert them to RM using something like Cleaner, you could use the same program to convert them to mpeg2. It would be better to start from your source tapes though. If you downloaded them P2P is that piracy? Wjat if you ripped them from the Season collection DVDs? I'm a little confused here. What is fair use when it comes to stuff that has been broadcast but is available commercially? Buff the Vampire Slayer? Babylon 5? The Sopranos? Am I free to create my own DVDs as blue_71 wants to?

[bilestyle]

yah this discussion has definitely started to go over that whole grey area of legality so i wouldnt be surprised if it gets the lock down soon...and i doubt he capped em himself if they are in crappy rm.. who with even half a brain caps to rm?

[pixeljammedia]

It really is too bad about Real. It started out as a good company. Some of the original creators of Quicktime went to Real and tried to create a cross-platform format you could stream over the net. Of course that was in the paleolithic era of the internet and the boom turned Real into a marketing machine that no longer focused on its technology. You need my info to get your player?!? You want to install adware?!? And other formats soon took over in terms of quality. Too bad, it should be time to toss it on the scrap-heap. I just wish "This American Life" wasn't archived in RealAudio.

[deadsierra]

What is fair use when it comes to stuff that has been broadcast but is available commercially?

Well, if it is currently being broadcast (new), then it probably isn't available on DVD, which means its ethical to be downloading it. Moreso if you watched it unedited once. Take The Simpsons for example. I downloaded the latest episode (the one where Homer and Marge get drunk repeatedly) after having viewed it on normal television (A-Channel if you care). I guess its a little immoral to have all the commercials cut out, but I already saw them once. However, once I get my MythTV box set up, I'll never need to download television episodes again.

Then, we have the problems of TV that is available on DVD, in which case you are a cheating bastard, and should have your DVD player forcibly removed (and be gutted alive, if we're talking about Firefly), or downloading an episode of a show not available in your City/Province/Country. In that last case, go ahead, because if you like it, you are required to buy the DVD when it comes out anyway, or refer back to the section on gutting.

[born bad]

Yeah, if you don't want to re-capture the video, you've gotta visit a friend with a PC to make this conversion. I recently did so -- using the 30 day trial version of the aforementioned EO Video -- when I came across some content unavailable in another format. The Real file looked to be about VCD-quality in the first place, and the conversion to SVCD MPEG actually improved the picture a bit by smoothing out some pixelation.

Nothing to go out and buy VirtualPC over, though. It's not very often I find something in Real that isn't also available in a more disc-friendly format.