Extracting audio from a .rm RealVideo file
 

I have some realvideo files whose audio streams I'd like to extract. They're lectures and presentations by IT speakers and things like that, and I'd like to have the speeches available to listen to in the car or on my iPod. However, I know that RM has historically been a royal bitch to do anything useful with since the codec is proprietary and is horrible and shitty and the spawn of Hitler and rapes kittens.

Or something.

Anyway, anyone know of a utility that can extract the audio from the movies? I'm not necessarily averse to having to rip in real-time, as I'll want to watch them all anyway and can just rip at the same time. However, if at all possible, I would prefer speedy ripping given the choice.

Thanks much. As always, GFF > *

afaik mplayer can play back this horrible reject of a media format, and they have a converter app called mencoder (I think), which can convert pretty much anything that mplayer itself can play. So you could drop the rm file into mencoder somehow, and decompress it to wav.

That is, given that mplayer can process your particular rm file (there are fifty billion different versions of rm files at the very least), and if you can find your way in the incredible labyrinth of a documentation that explains how to use the app. As it is commandline only.

Worth a try at the very least. Heres their homepage:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

I have DarwinPorts installed on my G5 and there is an Mplayer package available, so that might be my ticket to getting it to work.

Now here's the other kicker: the .rm files I have were originally ripped from an rtsp:// stream. Dunno if that's going to be a deal-breaker or not.

Try River Past Audio Converter Pro

I tried Audio Hijack (standard) and it didn't seem to be able to pull the audio from RealPlayer. Pro might be another story, I'll see about giving it a shot.