Re: Real->QT conversion?

In article <dca30s$7qm$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Heiko Recktenwald
<me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are tons of great movies on www.bbc.com etc in the
> modemfriendly Real Media format. Lets take it as it is.
> But how can we convert them into mov for editing or mp4
> for streaming with DSS?
>
> mencoder should be able to do it, QT can read
> mencoders avis etc, at least the raw ones, mencoder
> comes with mplayer, if you have never seen it.
>
> But is there any other option, are there any editors,
> that can read realfiles directly?

Won't the Real people sue anyone producing a commercial product that
does this? So we're stuck with the freeware people who are too
little/elusive to make them worth going after.
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