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The Real Media Codec is developed by the company RealNetworks? for their audio/video - streaming solution. This solution was the first important one for streaming via the internet in the mid 90's.
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The Real Media Codecs are proprietary, which makes their support in other applications pretty difficult. At present, an open-source decoder? is available for very outdated versions only.
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'''RealMedia Video''' is the video [[codec]] used in [[RealMedia]] files, which are played on [[RealPlayer]]. The Real Media Codecs are proprietary, which makes their support in other applications pretty difficult.
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== Compatibility ==
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Some versions of RealMedia video format can be played with VLC, but in your RealMedia file, there's all sorts of networking stuff, and it is that which causes problems. See [[RealMedia]] for more details.
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The [[helix]] player and [[RealPlayer]] is better at playing this kind of file.
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[[Category:Video codecs]]

Latest revision as of 11:59, 1 October 2013

RealMedia Video is the video codec used in RealMedia files, which are played on RealPlayer. The Real Media Codecs are proprietary, which makes their support in other applications pretty difficult.

Compatibility

Some versions of RealMedia video format can be played with VLC, but in your RealMedia file, there's all sorts of networking stuff, and it is that which causes problems. See RealMedia for more details.

The helix player and RealPlayer is better at playing this kind of file.