Converting RM Files to Avi using RM Converter

[Haru]

Hiya Everyone!! ^^ I'm a newbie, yes. And I don't have a clue about anything on DivX and converting stuff! Ha-ha-ha~
Anyway, a few weeks ago I downloaded Relone player...-_-;; Okay, that screwed up everything. I couldn't get the player to play one .rm/.ram file!! It kept on giving me illegal operation errors and crashed on itself. So I uninstalled it and tried download real player 8. Except now, not even real player 8 will work. x__x

Sooo, I decided..."I guess I'll try converting a .rm file into an avi or mpg file" o_o... I tried looking for a .RM converter, and I found one!!! ^^ Its called "RM Converter"! And guess what!?! It converted the .rm file into .avi using the DivX 5.0.1!!! YAAAY!!! The quality is good! But...the video is slower than the audio or the audio is faster than the video by a whole lot. How do I make the video and sound stay together well?
I tried using 2-pass, since many people say that it's the best quality ever!! Woo!~ I read on some sites that I need to select "2-pass, first pass" first to make the log file and then select "2-pass, second pass" overright the output file that was made to actually get the finished product. But sometimes I have an error when I select the "2-pass, first pass"!!
It gives me the error: "Failed AviFileOpen" But after a few times...I don't know why but it let me actually use the 2-pass, first pass!! Woohoo!! ^^ And then after that I selected 2-pass, second pass...and when that finished. I went to look at the file to see if it was any different than the "1-pass, quality" I had used on the .rm file earlier.

;_;...I got an avi file that was playing with chunky sqaure blocks everywhere on the picture!! The "1-pass, quality" was a whole lot better than 2-pass...and I wasn't expecting that. I hope someone knows what I'm talking about. And the sound and video was still not in sync. This time it seems as though the video was faster than the audio!
How do I get rid of the sqaure blocks and get a video + sound sync?
Oh yes, my computer is running on win98 (sadly, lol), and I think the speed 1.2gHz on an AMD Athlon XP. I'm really sorry if I babbeled too much...-_-; But I hope someone could help me out!!

[WildmanJoe]

IMHO, anything Real is basically to me, UPS (Useless-Piece of-****). The player sucks big time and screws up your system. The .ram files are just mono sound (used to be), reduced fps. And they still claim to be smaller than other formats... -DUH of course, with less fps and a lower quality, naturally it's 'smaller than other formats'... Anyway, just ranting.

Try converting the file to an uncompressed .avi or use a lossless codec. You might want to try TINRA or EO Video converter. After that, recompress it using your favourite codec (encode using GordionKnot or DVX).

[setarip]

Try using "EO" instead to convert Real files to .AVI...

[Haru]

Ah I'll get trying with EO Video!! Yeah I know... Real files are the crappiest files ever...but they were only available as is...
^^ Thanks for your help guys! xD
When I strike a problem I'll get back to this ASAP~ ^__^

[setarip]

"Thanks for your help guys!"

My (Our) pleasure ;>}

[mikeylikess99]

EO

hi folks, as always the forums doin a fine job, kudos to the techys here. have a question, as im attempting same thing with rm file, what is EO and were can i find. thanx in advance for any heads up..M

[setarip]

To mikeylikess99

Do a Googlesearch for "EO Player" (Don't be misled by the name. It converts video formats as well)

[mikeylikess99]

EO

thanx set , thats the fast help ivever gotten weoohoo. and ill check google also, looks haru got further than i did with divx, mine gave me an unsupported file error. ok im goin to google. thanx once again. M

[setarip]

"thanx set"

My pleasure ;>}

[mikeylikess99]

EO -help

ok..i dl the progie.. and i read what i thoiught were instruction on how to, but im not getting it, for some reason. anyone able to give me heads up on how to open a file in eo, and convert..id be much appreciated..thanx

[mikeylikess99]

no audio

seems there is no audio...anyone else have this issue converting real files to avi..

[charlizelip]

I have a way to convert rm to mpeg. That is use Hero Media Converter to convert the video to mpeg4 then use RM Converter to get the audio. After that use tmpgenc plus to combine them together to create a new mpeg. The worst part is, the Hero converter makes the video becomes unclear, it means that you can see small square boxes. I am currently looking for a software that can make the video becomes clearer. Any advice?

[DND]

Have your tryed winavi ?
it can convert AVI, MPEG1/2/4, VCD/SVCD/DVD, DivX, XVid, ASF, WMV, RM, QuickTime MOV, Flash SWF it doz a g8 job with avi's