RM Wrapped Divx Problem

Hey there!

I have a bit of a problem but I think it may have a simple solution from the right person.

I use a modified XBOX as a media player in my home. It's running a cromwell BIOS with Gentoo on it. I have all the codecs necessary to play all sorts of media and have had no problem with playing anything so far including OGM, XVID, DIVX, DVD, and many others.

Recently a friend sent me VHS transfers of a show we used to watch and he said they were in DivX like I asked. However, they are RM extension and are registered as RealMedia (i.e. wrapped as an RM). Therefore when I try and play it on the Linux XBOX it has a heart attack and either crashes out or hangs up completely.

When I play the videos on my computer using Real Player it is most def. a DivX video. I enabled the DivX codec and DivX logo to be sure and sure enough it pops up in the corner at the beginning of play.

My question is: Can I take the DivX core of a Real Media wrapped video and translate it into an AVI?

Thanks for the help!

 

You should be able to, as long as you have the porper codecs on your computer for all files. Just open it up with VirtualDub Mod, and save it as an avi. There is probably an even simpler way of going about this, but this is the easiest I can think of right now

 

VirtualDub refuses to open real media files.

 

DivX in a rm container. Never heard of it, I'm not even sure how you would create one.

You are playing via mplayer? If so I guess the rm parser doesn't support DivX. Might be possible to remux to avi using graphedit.

 

holy damn I forgot about graphedit!

i'll try that, thank you

 

Graphedit has the same problem that virtualdub has with not understanding the RM at all.

Ugh this sucks.

 

Well VirtualDub is never going to accept it since it uses VfW, well unless someone modifies it like was done for ogm and mkv with VirtualDubMod.

For graphedit to work you need Gabest's real media directshow filter isntalled. Hopefully his parser works better. Then you can just delete the decoder/render and hook up to an avimuxer and file writer filter.

 

asked for a "real" real or plain old xvid/divx in avi

 

well after registering Gabest's Realsplitter and opening the file in Graphedit I get this


Video.rm ---------- Real Splitter --> Real Audio --> AC3 --> DirectShow
\
\
\-> Real Video --> Video Render


And trying to insert any other filters causes this error:
"The filters cannot agree on a connection : No combination of the immediate filters could be found to make the connection. (Return code: 0x80040217)"

So seeing that it's real media from top to bottom i'm going to have to do an RM-->AVI and reencode them as such. I just hope the RM converters can understand the files.

 

Well from that graph it is using Real's video decoder, so it isn't DivX.

 

i realized that so now i'm looking into RM converters (so far none of which have worked)

 

mencoder worked quite well last time I tried it. Really though mplayer under gentoo should support rm playback. Should work fine unless you are running a 64bit distro which you obviously aren't on an XBox. You just need to download the realmedia codecs.