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skinners1
11-29-2004, 07:57 PM
Recently ran across a video on a website that was over 1 hr in length, excellent quality and less than 10k in size. It was a .ram codec? It played in the realtime player. Any ideas how they did this?
David Jimerson
11-29-2004, 08:11 PM
10K?
10k That just has to be some sort of link extension ???
krestofre
11-30-2004, 08:32 AM
.ram is a pointer file to the actual video stored on streaming servers. It's very similary to the old .asx format that Microsoft used. Try playing the .ram file without a live internet connection and the quality of the video won't be so good. :)
Technology isn't to the point of compressing 1 hr to a 10k file.
Chris
krestofre
11-30-2004, 08:35 AM
I guess I should actually answer the original question. :-[ They probably did this using RealProducer Plus which is Real's content creation program. It would allow them to encode the video to be hosted on the server, and then create the .ram link file to put on the website.
Chris
skinners1
11-30-2004, 08:45 AM
Thanks for the clarification guys. I was sure my eyes were tricking me on the file size.
"Gone With The Wind" now showing @ 12k HAA ;D