have you tried mencoder. check if mplayer can play the rm file. <br>i use the following to convert my videos from camcorder to a lower quality to save on my mobile or web<br><span class="nfakPe">mencoder</span> source.avi -sws 2 -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=350 -vf scale=320:240  -ofps 18 -o output.avi<br> <br>you might not need the -vf scale . or you can try using -oac copy<br>I dont think I have a rm file right now to try, but i believe it should work<br><br>the mencoder/mplayer man page has all the information you will ever need. Then there's also google. <br> <br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Linux Lingam <<a href="mailto:linuxlingam@gmail.com" target="_blank">linuxlingam@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">[snip]<br> <br> encoding to flv from ffmpeg works.<br> but i wonder how to transcode a *.rm file (realmedia video) to mpeg1<br> or mpeg2, or even mpeg4.<br> <br> any tips, please?<br> <br> tia<br> <br> niyam<br> <div><div></div><div><br> --<br> ubuntu-in mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>