Convert Real video (rmvb) on 64bit Suse
 

Hi

Big congrats to me for posting my 1st message!! woohoo!! :D And in addition to that, I've just moved from WinXP to Suse 10.2 (KDE) 64 bit on an AMD 4200+ dual core with 2gb DDR & 7200 GT gfx. Even better I hear you say. Being a complete newb to all this, I'm still learning the wonders of complete control. I'm a keen vid converter & am loving the power of mencoder & ffmpeg. I'm just having real probs trying to convert real video to avi.

I've been searching the net for someone else with a similar prob & solution, but to no avail. I think it has something to do with 32bit codecs not being able to run in 64 bits?!
I did find someone with a similar problem ? cant post URLS on 1st post? but have had no reply to my email to this dude begging for an answer. Any help would be most appreciated.

EDIT: Command I'm using is:
mencoder "Source.rmvb" -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=128 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1200 -ofps 25 -of avi -o "Destination.avi"

error:

Requested video codec family [rv3040] (vfm=realvid) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested video codec family [rv40] (vfm=realvid) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested video codec family [rv40win] (vfm=realvid) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested video codec family [rv40mac] (vfm=realvid) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30345652.

I'm sure there must be an easy answer to this one, but I don't know it yet!!!

Thanks in advance..

Trev

Yup, have done that, still same results.

Right guys, I have the latest real codecs installed & have no problem playing real videos files, but ffmpeg & mencoder refuse to acknowledge that they are installed (as above). Is the answer so obvious that no-one can be arsed to post the answer?

Please please, don't make me have to install wine and/or an XP VMware image to do the job!!

I'll do it ya know, I will, just watch me.....;-)

PS Looks like THIS GUY is having similar trouble as well.

I'm afraid that it is a 64 bit issue indeed. All I can think of is using 32 bit multimedia apps only.

And yes, you could use XP, only I am wondering whether that would help. I mean, I have XP64 and with very few exceptions all the applications are 32 bit (XP 64 is 90% emulation I guess).

I too recommend using a 32-bit version of mplayer.
You don’t have to do any of that (nor a chroot). Just get a 32-bit build of mplayer/mencoder (or build it yourself) that works for your multilib setup.