Playing rm without installing RealOne

[The Belgain]

I know that Media Player Classic can play rm files if RealOne is installed, but uses the codecs installed by RealOne. Now that the dll files for the codec are available seperately, it should be possible to just install the necessary ones, and playback in MPC without having to install RealOne at all, right?

Which files do I need, and where do I put them (in \system32 ?)?

[gabest]

It is all in french, but not hard to find what you are looking for: http://g.touvet.free.fr/rv9/rv9.php?cat=logi

[The Belgain]

Ok, cheers. Small problem however: Media Player Classic crashes if I try to seek an rmvb file (RV9). Is this a known bug? Any way to get around this?

[gabest]

I have only tested a few movie trailers in rv9 and my older rm encodings. If you can, upload a little of the crashing file to my ftp.

Is mpc crashing with both renderes?

[The Belgain]

Yup, it's crashing with both renderers (which one is recommended in genereal by the way, I assime the system default is overlay)?

How can I cut a chunk out of the file to upload it to you?

[gabest]

You can select between the normal and mine in the options on the "realmedia" page. Those on the first page are for files played back with dshow.

How can I cut a chunk out of the file to upload it to you?Start the upload and stop it after you think it is enough. (strange, I'm writing this for the second time this week :))

[The Belgain]

Guess what? It works with your renderer. I thought you were talking about wether to use overlay or VMR. It seeks fine now.

Thanks very much for the great program, it's saved me having to install RealOne, so I'm happy. Oh, and I'm flattered your 666th post was a reply to me!

[gabest]

Originally posted by The Belgain
Guess what? It works with your renderer. I thought you were talking about wether to use overlay or VMR. It seeks fine now.Weired... The normal renderer should be a little faster though, it uses i420 on overlay (similar to yv12).Thanks very much for the great program, it's saved me having to install RealOne, so I'm happy. Oh, and I'm flattered your 666th post was a reply to me! LOL, I didn't notice it.

[The Belgain]

Yup, that is a little strange. There shouldn'e really be any weird behaviour on my machine as it's a completely clean install of win2k (I reinstalled it yesterday because I sold my OS hard disk).

A little question about the codecs. Are the ones you posted the link to legit ones from the stuff Real have released, or are they reverse-engineered from RealOne? Also, how come they're so big?

[gabest]

This codec pack was not made by me, but I think it just contains the copy of those plugin directories which realone would install normally. The size is so big because real has codecs for most encoding types which can be muxed into a real media format, also if one was missing realone would automatically download the needed dll from their site.