[xubuntu-users] .rm files (Real Media, I assume)

[Mischa Falkenburg]

Vincent wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Steve Dodier <sidnioulz at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sidnioulz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Mischa,
>
>     Actually, Amarok is a KDE music player, it will only play music,
>     but the good news is that some GTK players (that will look much
>     better and will use less memory) are also capable of reading the
>     same files as Amarok : Exaile, Rhythmbox and Banshee are a few of
>     the most famous ones.
>
>     If you need a media player that can be almost anything, you
>     already have Totem installed, just make sure to install the
>     "xubuntu-restricted" package that installs all the available
>     codecs (which we can't ship by default due to possible copyright
>     issues).
>
>     If you really need a media player that can play anything, try VLC.
>     There only are two kind of files it can't play : Old Quicktime
>     files and RealPlayer files. I fear your .rm file enters in the
>     latter category. The only advice I can give you is to avoid these
>     kind of files, as they can only be played with their respective
>     players, which are proprietary and somewhat controversial.
>
>
> You can try to convert the .rm file to e.g. a .ogg file at 
> http://www.mediaconverter.org/ Then Totem should be able to play it. 
> Oh, and the package is xubuntu-restricted-extras :)
>
> -- 
> Vincent
OK, I tried sudo apt-get media converter and got nowhere. I tried the 
link you sent, and it looks like all I should do is drag-and-drop. Is 
that true? There's not really a lot of info in the screen.

M.
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