[MPlayer-users] How to tell how far through you are

[John Brown]

>From: Kichigai Mentat <kichigai at comcast.net>
>On Apr 1, 2006, at 20.45, RC wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 20:38:01 -0600
>>Kichigai Mentat <kichigai at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>That sounds unneccessary. Just remux the file. Perhaps "mencoder -ovc
>>>copy -oac copy <realmedia file>.rm -o <new name>.avi"
>>
>>Lots of codecs don't like being crammed into an AVI.  I assume real
>>would be among them.
>
>Well, it was worth a shot. Worst case, they try it out and it doesn't  
>work. No big loss.
>
>>
>>>or using Matroska tools to remux the file into an MKA.
>>
>>That might work.  I don't know much about matroska.
>
>I just checked out the compatible codec listings in OGMMerge and  MKVMerge. 
>OGM (very stingy) shows no love for RealMedia, and shuns it  completely. 
>Matroska, however, is very open, and is compatible with  both Real Audio 
>and Real Video (or so it claims).

I have several Matroska files that contain Real video and audio.