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  Posted by Robert Levy on May 2, 2011 at 10:32 pm

  I have a client who is sitting on terabytes of old multibitrate Real Video files. Does anybody know of a way to convert these into a more flexible format?

  Best case solution would be linux and scriptable so it could incorporate it into their current ffMpeg workflow.

  Thanks in advance

  Jeff Greenberg replied 15 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Craig Seeman

  May 7, 2011 at 6:43 pm

  That nobody has responded for days may show you what a disaster Real is as a codec (IMHO). There’s not much in the way of compression utilities that can handle it as a source.

  I’ve never used this but it might be worth a test if they have a free demo
  https://www.realplayerconvertermac.com/

  Maybe iffmpeg can handle it.
  https://www.iffmpeg.com/
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  Jeff Greenberg

  May 8, 2011 at 12:04 am

  As I understand it, on current systems, the FFMpeg build handles real.

  Best,

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