[xubuntu-users] .rm files (Real Media, I assume)

[Vincent]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Mischa Falkenburg <
because_productions at myfairpoint.net> wrote:

>  Vincent wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Steve Dodier <sidnioulz at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hello Mischa,
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>> Actually, Amarok is a KDE music player, it will only play music, but the
>> good news is that some GTK players (that will look much better and will use
>> less memory) are also capable of reading the same files as Amarok : Exaile,
>> Rhythmbox and Banshee are a few of the most famous ones.
>>
>> If you need a media player that can be almost anything, you already have
>> Totem installed, just make sure to install the "xubuntu-restricted" package
>> that installs all the available codecs (which we can't ship by default due
>> to possible copyright issues).
>>
>> If you really need a media player that can play anything, try VLC. There
>> only are two kind of files it can't play : Old Quicktime files and
>> RealPlayer files. I fear your .rm file enters in the latter category. The
>> only advice I can give you is to avoid these kind of files, as they can only
>> be played with their respective players, which are proprietary and somewhat
>> controversial.
>>
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> You can try to convert the .rm file to e.g. a .ogg file at
> http://www.mediaconverter.org/ Then Totem should be able to play it. Oh,
> and the package is xubuntu-restricted-extras :)
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> --
> Vincent
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> OK, I tried sudo apt-get media converter and got nowhere. I tried the link
> you sent, and it looks like all I should do is drag-and-drop. Is that true?
> There's not really a lot of info in the screen.
>

Ah, no, the media converter application is only for audio files. The site is
a completely independent thing. You first click "Upload a file", then you
click "Browse" and you select the .rm file, then OK. You then click "Go to
the next step" and select as output file type "ogg". You then click OK, then
Start. And hope it works for you, because it didn't for me, but I'm not sure
if my .rm file was valid...


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Vincent
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