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epepper9
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20. January 2005 @ 13:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have a lot of .rm files, and I was wondering if anyone knows how to convert .rm to a dvd format on a mac.

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2. February 2005 @ 12:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yes indeed - I wish to know the answer but I do know the "rm" refers to a stream NOT a file but I have found it is possible to make a CD - DATA (not video) copy -this will be a perfect copy on a CD BUT the CD will NOT play on a DVD Player but it will play on your computer IF RealPlayer is installed on the computer. Note::if you find a way to convert the 'rm' so that a CD can be played n a DVD please let me know. If you put the Data created CD into DVD Player you will receive a notice "disc error please eject"
epepper9
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2. February 2005 @ 18:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yeah I know how to put them on a data cd, thanks, you just drag 'n drop, but I wonder if its possible to convert them to a VCD or DVD friendly file, hmmmm.
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2. February 2005 @ 20:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
South Park is legal to download?

Can you use real media binary codecs with mplayer/mencoder under OSX? I know that you can under linux and win32. If not then I don't know.
epepper9
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3. February 2005 @ 18:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yep I read an FAQ on some site that said it was legal to download, and you can download some off the official site here http://southparkstudios.com/show/guide.php?season=8
celtic_d
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3. February 2005 @ 19:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Don't think that they have full eps for download.
Anway, mplayer rv9 codecs for OSX: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/rp9codecs-macosx-20041107.pkg.zip
With them you should be able to convert to MPEG2/AC3, although libavcodecs rate control is not the best. You can probaly also pipe to another app or just encode to a temporary file.
epepper9
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4. February 2005 @ 01:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks, its downloaded and installed, how exactly do I use it to get my .rm files onto the DVD? What does this codec do?
celtic_d
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4. February 2005 @ 03:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It is a codec for mplayer/mencoder. You would need an oSX built of that to use the codecs. No idea about OSX builds. You may have to compile it yourself. I assume that OSX comes with a compiler?
epepper9
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4. February 2005 @ 11:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hmmm compile what??????????????
With what??????????????
sorry I have little experience with video conversion and I have never used a codec much, I thought they only added more capabilities to quicktime etc.
I have found plenty of good converters for PC but I would like a good few clicks converter for os x.
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4. February 2005 @ 19:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Compile mplayer/mencoder.
With what? Good question. I have no idea as I don't have a mac. Like I said, I assume that it comes with a compiler. Also I only suggested compiling if binaries aren't available.

A quicktime codec will add support for new formats to quicktime, however in this case the codec is not for quicktime. A real media quicktime codec/splitter if one existed would be nice though. Yhen you could just load the rm file into quicktime and convert.

There may very well be another solution, but not owning a mac the only solution that I could come up with was a cross platform one.
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4. February 2005 @ 20:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
what c_d meant is that you need to get the source code for mplayer/mencoder and build it with a software compiler on your osx.

cause the builds available is for linux and windows only, that i know of.

this has nothing with video conversion, but the process of compiling it and installing mencoder


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epepper9
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5. February 2005 @ 10:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have a mac os x mplayer and I am pretty sure mencoder for os x exists, but I want to know what I am ment to do???

EG (this is only an example) If I had an AVI that quicktime supported, I could open it in quictime and export it as a different file (eg MPEG4)

Is that the sort of thing I have to do, can one of you please explain how you would do it.
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5. February 2005 @ 21:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yep, that sort of thing. But instead of loading the rm file into quicktime and exporting you are using mencoder.
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7. February 2005 @ 17:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
where did you get the osx compile ? or did you made it yourself ?

could you post a link for future referrence :)
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epepper9
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7. February 2005 @ 19:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
mencoder alone is kinda crappy IMO, I found this thing a while back and didn't understand it now I do. I am talking about a program called "ffmpegx" what you have to do is download it, then install mencoder, mplayer and mpeg2enc into it. Then you can convert. For some reason it screws up so I have to uncheck that I want mencoder and mpeg2enc and then it doesn't always encode properly but it is pretty good otherwise. Here it is: http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
thanks for the help, I will try changing directorys for the files and see if it will work, it is the latest version, but I think it has trouble with some .rms but will do AVI and mpeg4 to DVD alright.
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