In preparation for my faculty visit to the UM School of Information, I found I needed to recover some old media that I only had in Real Media – I had lost all the copies of the final video.
Several things did not work which I describe below. What did work is
Real7ime Converter (R7C) is a converter of any RealPlayer(tm) streaming medias (video and sound) to AVI/WAV/MP3 format. It is a realtime converter because it does not manage Real Time Streaming Protocol(tm) (RTSP) directly so the needed time to convert a media will be greater or equal to the time of the media.
This can be downloaded from http://r7cproj.euro.ru/indexe.htm
I also installed a copy of real Player 8 from my own archival copies – It worked with this Real Player – I don’t know what other versions it works with – thankfully in the mid-90’s as Real got weirder and weirder – I had the forthought to keep copies of all of the Real distributions :)
This worked swell – I got an uncompressed 320×240 AVI that I turned into Flash Video and MP4. Here is the result:
Understanding the Posix Open System Reference Model
Pretty cool – since I was dead in the water otherwise.

I *almost* got FFMPEGX working – I got it to play the RM by installing the reallib Helix stuff. The key was finding the reallib stuff since the Helix site seems to be quite broken (a good reason to do static pages over time).
Here is the link to the reallib stuff:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mplayerosx/reallib.zip?download
Here is the forum I used to find this link (thanks guys)
http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/t303407.html
Here are some links that simply did not work:
http://forms.helixcommunity.org/helix/builds/index.html?filename=20041216/all_clients-helix-20041216-macos-gcc3-pb.tar.gz
http://software-dl.real.com/12c9223f25e680d2d305/helix/20041216/all_clients-helix-20041216-macos-gcc3-pb.tar.gz
Urg.