[ubuntu-in] Problem playing .rm files

[Mallikarjun(ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ್)]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Ritesh Sinha <sinha.k.ritesh at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/9/30 Mallikarjun <mallik.v.arjun at gmail.com>:
> > Dear Friends,
> >  I have a small problem in Ubuntu playing rm files, not all but only
> those
> > available on http://www.aduni.org/courses/theory/index.php?view=cw
> >
> > All rm and rmvb videos can be played with my movie player, but not the
> > videos on this particular website. But I can play it on Real player in
> > Windows.
> >
> > I use Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit, so no real player officially available.
> >
> > I am open to suggestions including converting to some other format (I
> tried
> > using ffmpeg, but cud not do it)
> >
> > Mallikarjun
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> If you _must_ play it then your only choice is to add the Medibuntu
> repo which provides 64 bit realplayer builds. Converting it will
> surely cause loss of fidelity, however if that is acceptable you can
> always try:
>
> Thanks for the suggestion of installing Medibuntu, but I dont want increase
boot time
So I tried installing Real Player and it has worked not.
Once again thanks for the input.

mencoder movie.rmvb -o movie.avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=5
> -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=256
>
> This did not work as it threw some errors


> Which would spit out an AVI file. For it to work you need mplayer
> installed along with the Win32 codecs.
>
> Ref: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RealPlayerInstallationMethods
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