On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Jason Clinton wrote:

> Brian Kelsay wrote:
> 
> > Is there a player besides Real Player that will play .ram files. Real
> > is one of those apps that has porked out and hogged resources until it
> > won't run or will barely run on older hardware even though you have
> > lots of RAM.  I'm talking a 233 or a 500 with a couple of hundred MB.  
> > On Winders this happened around version Real G2 or 8.  I never
> > bothered to try it on Linux.

> mplayer

mplayer has a companion utility, mencoder, which will convert your real 
player files to mpeg, divx, or anything else.  Quite handy for building a 
library of your favorite videos of your prefered format.