[MPlayer-users] Converting realmedia files?

[Reimar Döffinger]

> But when I tried to convert it with mencoder, it failed to detect the 
> file format. I then renamed it to stream.dump.rm. No mencoder does
> read it, but still prints an error message: 
> 
> Input #0, rm, from 'stream.dump.rm':
>   Duration: 00:18:05.5, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 189 kb/s
>   Stream #0.0: Video: RV40 / 0x30345652, 384x216, 267 kb/s, 12.00
>   fps(r)
>   Stream #0.1: Audio: cook, 22050 Hz, mono, 32 kb/s
> swScaler: Unknown format is not supported as input format
> 
> I though mencoder would read the same formats as mplayer, and if
> mplayer could play it...

Yes that is right, but you are using ffmpeg and _not_ mencoder...