[OT] Video with .rm extension

[Mazi]

Hi,

The following may be a bit off-topic question:

Yesterday, I downloaded a video clip that has a .rm extension. Can anyone
please tell me if Windows Media Player will support this on a Win2kX/XP
platform? If not, what program/utilities will recognize this .rm extension?

Thanks.

 

[TheDragon]

Real Player. or a derivative of. Such As Real Alternative.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

 

[Mazi]

Thanks for the information. I downloaded/installed the Real Alternative on
my 2.4GHz Celeron. The software ate up 90% of the CPU with a blank video for
more than 3 minutes that I had to kill the program. Can anyone please tell
me what did I do wrong?

 

[Rob Stow]

Thanks for the information. I downloaded/installed the Real Alternative on
my 2.4GHz Celeron. The software ate up 90% of the CPU with a blank video for
more than 3 minutes that I had to kill the program. Can anyone please tell
me what did I do wrong?

You probably didn't do anything wrong.

I've given Real Alternative a try and it is simply no good - yet.
Check back in six months and see if it has gotten any better.

I admire the effort put into developing RA, but it simply
isn't close to being ready for prime time yet. Kind of
like OE and IE.

 

[TheDragon]

I have RA and using without issues. Plays fine. CPU usage is around 5 %.

P4 3.0GHz 1GB RAM. WIndows XP Pro