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HeeHee wrote on 7/31/2002, 3:31 PM
The answer to your question is unfortunatly, no. See the Vegas Video Supported File Formats listing.
taliesin wrote on 7/31/2002, 4:32 PM
My knowledge is that there is no legal tool at all to opem .rm-files if not the RealPlayer itself.
Real tries to prevent other companies from doing that.
I think there are a few tools which does open .rm-files and which can convert them, but them are NOT legal.
So - no chance for VV to do that job ...

Marco
dsanders wrote on 7/31/2002, 4:35 PM
Some screen capture programs work better than others. What your capture program did was capture the contents of the "window", which is blank. RealMedia create a blank window, then tells the video drive where the window is, then writes directly to the video memory. This is done for effeciency. If you drag the window around, you will see the window move, then the rectangle of the video kind of "pops" to where you moved the window. In the past, I have used a screen/window capture program called SnagIt. I don't know if this will work for you or not, but you may want to give it a try.
Tanjy wrote on 8/1/2002, 12:30 AM
As Taliesin mentioned, there are no legal tools that let you open .rm files. It doesn't mean they're not out there. There's a program called Streambox VCR that lets you do this but Real Networks took them to court and squashed them. Supposedly, it's not easy to find this software but I just found it the other day at:
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/top_downloads/

Haven't tried it out, but I notice it's had close to 1/2 million downloads (460,992 to be exact).

Also, if anybody wants to convert RealAudio files into wav files there's this stream ripping software which I believe is legal (at least for now).
http://www.wisecroft.com

For your info, the recording industry is working to make ANY kind of stream recording/ripping software illegal. Ditto CD audio. This I believe is the wave of the future of all digital media. Either get used to it or start writing your Congressman. Somehow I think people will get used to it.




SonyDennis wrote on 8/1/2002, 7:57 AM
If you're getting blank areas in a screen capture from RealPlayer, WMP, or QT player, try turning down or off the hardware acceleration slider or checkbox, in the players configuration dialogs. This will make it stop using video overlays for it's display, and make it copy the image directly into display memory, where a screen capture utility (or, Alt+PrtScr key) can capture the image.
///d@
mfranco wrote on 8/2/2002, 8:40 AM
Theres a program called TINRA that will convert rm to avi. I've used it and the results vary from pretty good to terrible depending on the source files. Search for TINRA on google to get all the info.
jeffy82 wrote on 8/4/2002, 8:52 AM
Personally, I would avoid Streambox, it's complicated, buggy, it ain't quite above board.

SonicDennis is pointing you in the right direction.
Hardware acceleration has to be lowered/turned off, in order to kill the graphics overlay. Check out the below Link, theres a better explanation.

But, if you still can't get it, don't feel bad. The Webmaster of another forum (DOOM9) anounced he was no longer including any frameshots with his latest Codecshootout (codec comparison)cause he couldn't pull screens shots from the Realmedia player either. But his problem seemed to have more to do with not being able to pause Realmediaplayer?

Check out.
http://www.vcdhelp.com/rmto2.htm


I really wish SF would implemente HTML linking. But I would be willing to sacrifice that for,...hummm....lets say maybe,...um,....divx compatibility...

jeffy82@aol.com
Chienworks wrote on 8/4/2002, 8:56 AM
jeffy82, do you mean linking like this? http://www.vcdhelp.com/rmto2.htm