![]() ![]() Above this main panel there’s a section with buttons to add videos, remove videos, clear all videos, select the output format, open the Settings menu, and launch the conversion process. Or to put it in other words, all the videos you selected for conversion are nicely presented as a list on the application’s interface. The main panel on the application’s interface presents all the videos you loaded into the application. And on the Mac front, support is provided for any Mac OS X edition from 10.6 Snow Leopard onward. On the Windows front, support is provided for any Windows edition from Windows XP onward. MediaHuman Video Converter is available for Microsoft’s Windows operating system and for Apple’s Mac OS X. A dropdown menu on the application’s interface conveniently presents all the output formats you can play with. Or you could use it to convert videos to a specific format. ![]() You could use it to prepare videos so they work with devices like the iPad and the iPhone. First of all, I’d like to apologize to all the people on twitter that follow me and had to endure my ranting about the trials and tribulations of converting real media files: I’m sorry.This MediaHuman product does just what it says on the label: it takes the video files you provide, it converts them to the format you select, and it saves the converted videos to the location you specify. So let’s say you have a pile of real media video that was recorded sometime earlier in the decade when real video was still relevant, but you realize any sane person these days doesn’t have RealPlayer installed and can’t view it. What you really want is that video to exist in an mp4 so you can stream it to a flash player, or eventually use in html5 (once they work that codec stuff out). ![]() If you do a little googling on how to convert real video into h.264 mp4, you’ll find lots of programs and forum posts claiming they know to do it. Thankfully, there is a better way, and I will lay it out for you.īut it’s mostly programs that don’t actually work and forum posts that are no longer relevant or strewn with blocking issues. The URLs for those things probably look something like In our scenario, you have a list of 80 or so real media files that you need to convert. ram file, you’d notice that it’s about 59 bytes clearly not enough to be the actual video file. What it is, is a pointer to the streaming location for the file. ram file in a text editor, you’ll see it points to rtsp://:8080/translocations/media/Gowda.rm, which is the location for our real media streaming server here at the Walker.The thing we really want is the. rm file, but it can be a little hard to get via rtsp. Since we’re not stream ripping someone else’s content (that would be wrong, dontcha know), we can just log in to the server and based on that file path it’s looking for, grab the. Rm via SCP or a file transfer mechanism of our choice. Step two: Convert the real media files to mp4 rm files are actually accessible via HTTP, so I just did a little find/replacing in the URLs and built a list with wget to download them. If you were trying to do this back in the day this would be a major pain. You’d have to use mencoder and the longest, most convoluted command-line arguments you’ve ever seen. ![]() Thankfully, Real recently came out with an updated version of RealPlayer that has a handy little thing in it called RealPlayer Converter. Sounds too good to be true, right? It is.įor larger files, it only works well on Windows, and it doesn’t give you a lot of options for encoding. The mac version will hang at 95% encoding for most files, and that’s pretty annoying. ![]()
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