Hi everyone

i used to convert videos in to rmvb format using Real producer..
By this i could save lot of my hard disk space since it compresses upto 66%
Now i have moved to linux...
i dont want to use windows for even coverting the videos

Please give me the link to the rpm package of any Good Real media producer in linux

I am using Fedora core 6...

THANKS IN ADVANCE

Bye

Have you looked here?

http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&q=rmvb&btnG=Search

Hi bigrigdriver
Thanks for your quick reply

I didnt find any real media producer....
i got links related to conversion of rmvb to vcd converter......etc

Please suggest me a software that can compress in to rmvb format....so that i can save my disk space

Is there any other way to compress without any change in the Quality .....

Please tell me the format [similar to rmvb which converts upto 33% size without loss in quality ] and also the Converting Package

Bye

You could try h.263. I think avidemux2 does a nice job.

I've looked up RMVB and it is a proprietary codec by Real Networks. I don't think there will be a software to compress videos using RMVB codec because it is proprietary and there may not be any free software implementation of it.

Why not use any of the major free video codecs? XviD or Theora come to mind immediately. Both can be installed via yum. I use XviD extensively and it gives out excellent quality, at least for me.

I'd give RealProducer a try.

Will the size decrease if i convert a video file[mpeg/dat/avi...etc] to XviD format without any loss in the quality of the video when compared with the original one ???

Real media Producer which i had in windows converts the videos to rmvb files and compresses it to 1/3 rd of the original video size with out any loss in quality....

What is Theora ?
Can we play it in Windows...?
Will it compress the file with out loss in quality??

Please tell me how to install XviD/Theora using yum ???

Is there any GUI to work with these converters...
OR
only CLI

Can u give me some basic commands to convet videos ??

yum install avidemux

What is this avidemux ??

Will I Get any GUI interface after installing ....?

If not tell me some basic commands to convert

Bye

well avi is a container while mpeg (like mpeg1, mpeg2 etc. )is a codec so depending on what codec you use and amount of compression you are bound to lose some quality when you compress video (this is true for any codec on the planet). Without quality loss is a misnomer. Video when compressed invariably loses quality...what differentiates good codecs from bad ones is the final quality and how it can be reproduced with least quality loss.

Check out the links below to gain more understanding of the various formats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpeg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora

That's for you to research...for generalized questions like this google yum tutorial on the net.

I always use CLI but you can look at OggConvert and OGMRip.

Once you are ready, I can give you some of the links to tutorials. As I said, I extensively use xvid and mencoder to produce the xvid coded files.

Avidemux is a GUI video editing program that is also very easy to use as a transcoder.

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

It has a gui (or is one depending on your point of view).

You really need to learn how to use google.