being my techie self..

How to play RMVB files

February 7, 2008

I haven’t posted in quite a while.. I guess I was infected with the lazy bug. Hahaha.. But seriously, I couldn’t really find any reason or any new things to post. Even while I was on vacation! Hahahah.. I was THAT lazy. BTW, we have DSL connection at home and all I did the whole time was download, download, download. :D

 

I was using Limewire (I’m lucky the laptop’s not infected yet..) to download this file. Unfortunately, it has a filename extension of RMVB. Even VLC media player was not able to play it. Hmm.. what is this?

From Jake Ludington’s blog,

RMVB is a RealMedia Variable Bitrate file. This is one of the newer formats from Real for publishing video files, which is quickly becoming a popular format for Anime and Asian movie titles because of smaller file sizes and lower bitrates with exceptional quality compared to DivX, which has long been the standard for trading videos online.

You can then play it back by downloading and installing RealPlayer. It’s free. :)

 


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