[MPlayer-users] How to tell how far through you are

[Kichigai Mentat]

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On Apr 1, 2006, at 20.45, RC wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 20:38:01 -0600
> Kichigai Mentat <kichigai at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> That sounds unneccessary. Just remux the file. Perhaps "mencoder -ovc
>> copy -oac copy <realmedia file>.rm -o <new name>.avi"
>
> Lots of codecs don't like being crammed into an AVI.  I assume real
> would be among them.

Well, it was worth a shot. Worst case, they try it out and it doesn't  
work. No big loss.

>
>> or using Matroska tools to remux the file into an MKA.
>
> That might work.  I don't know much about matroska.

I just checked out the compatible codec listings in OGMMerge and  
MKVMerge. OGM (very stingy) shows no love for RealMedia, and shuns it  
completely. Matroska, however, is very open, and is compatible with  
both Real Audio and Real Video (or so it claims).
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