Seeking DVD to Real Media conversion solution...

[ruin evil]

Read the FFmpeg docs better and have it output something that Real
Producer likes. FFmpeg is like the easiest transcoder to use in the
world. Also mencoder is good for transcoding into AVI, but the syntax
is significantly harder than FFmpeg.Real Producer is the only program
that can make Real Video files... which, in my opinion, should really
only be used in ancient useless streaming video. Also... did you try
using the mov format in Real Producer, as it was in copy of the doc I
gave you. Also, Real Producer Basic is only for personal files.

;o

Najiib


On Nov 6, 2007 8:40 AM, William Bulley <web at umich.edu> wrote:
> According to ruin evil <ruinevil at gmail.com>:
> >
> >  Another compatible format that Apple's QuickTime Player can
> >  handle is vanilla MPEG. The command line:
> >
> >     ffmpeg -i <inputfile.ext> <file.mpg>
> >
> >  will create a MPEG file with MPEG-1 video and MP2 audio.
> >
> > *** Use this to encode the .rm with your Real Producer..... OR DON'T,
> > as QuickTime is the primary video player of Macintosh computers. No
> > one use any type of RealVideo anymore... this is not the 1990s.
>
> Fair enough, but when I tried this using ffmpeg-devel-2007.04.29_2,
> this is what happened:
>
>    freebsd% ffmpeg -i original.dvd.image.vob worth.a.try.mpg
>    [lots of output]
>    freebsd& % midentify worth.a.try.mpg
>    ID_VIDEO_ID=0
>    ID_AUDIO_ID=0
>    ID_FILENAME=worth.a.try.mpg
>    ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
>    ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000001
>    ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
>    ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
>    ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=480
>    ID_VIDEO_FPS=29.970
>    ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
>    ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=80
>    ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
>    ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
>    ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
>    ID_LENGTH=1277.41
>    ID_VIDEO_CODEC=mpegpes
>    ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=64000
>    ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
>    ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
>    ID_AUDIO_CODEC=mp3     <<== Real Producer doesn't like this either...
>    freebsd% ./producer -i worth.a.try.mpg -o worth.a.try.rm
>    RealProducer(R) Basic 11.1 Build number: 11.1.0.2676
>    Info: Missing RIFF header. worth.a.try.mpg is not a valid AVI file.
>    Error: Failure to load reader for file worth.a.try.mpg
>    Error: Unable to initialize input
>    Error: Failed to initialize inputs
>    Done  Errors: 3 Warnings: 0
>
> Recall that the Real Producer (basic) insists on one of three input
> file formats: *.AVI, *.MOV or *.WAV
>
> Maybe I misunderstood your suggestion(s), but this approach seems doomed.
> I need to create Real Media output for our WWW site even though this is
> not the 1990s.   :-)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> web...
>
> --
> William Bulley                     Email: web at umich.edu
>
>