HELP with .rmvb files and softsubs on a MAC !!!

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Simpleme88,

I'm not sure why your having a problem without a step by step explaination of what you have tried and without knowing what Mac you are using. All of which can seem overwhelming if your not overly familiar with computers. You may be able to bypass the whole problem by checking and seeing if the show you are trying to work with if posted to www.veoh.com. If so so you can just download the veoh player and the file from there and watch it. In case you do not know about Veoh it is similiar to utube but without the sucking. Like utube you can watch videos online in low quality but unlike them you can download the file in higher quality and watch using their player. I've noticed quite a lot of asian dramas popping up on their site recently.

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:37 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:47 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Just curious... releanoyed, did you ever try it out on your friend's laptop?

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:23 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

hi all

i followed mt877's instructions. my problem is that i don't have a ffmegX folder in library/application support

should this be created automatically when i move the ffmegX into my applications folder?

please help!

i can run the rmvb file on my RealPlayer but can not get the .srt file to load at the same time - very frustrating

salut

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:46 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hi crzycpl,
I'm actually a Mac user and recently I have come across the same problem as you when I tried to watch the Tokyo Juliet. It was frustrated, I know. So I have been to a few website searching for a solution but mostly dead end. Anyway, I found a way to convert .rmvb by using ffmpegx successfully. Here is how:

You have to download them on the mplayer main website. Scroll down to the "Binary Codec Package" section and download the package "Mac OS X x86 20060611".

Inside the zip file you'll find the installer that will install the library files in usr/local/lib. Open the installer and proceed with the installation.

Under the finder choose "Go to folder..." in the "Go" menu. Type

/usr/local/lib

and press return. This will open a new window where you will find a "codecs" folder containing the Real binaries. Copy this folder in Library/Application Support/ffmpegX and rename it "reallib" (don't forget the two L). That should make it..

Don't forget to encode the file in "AVI DivX" (mencoder). That's it.

Here is a link http://forum.videohelp.com/topic322562.html in case you have further problem.

Actually I was successfully doing this until one day my Mac said I lost some files and eventually I couldn't restart the computer. I don't think it's the ffmpegx problem since i was doing something else on the computer too. But if this ever happen to you, don't panic. Just bring your Mac to an Apple store and have one of those Genius guys there reinstall the software for you. All you files will still be intact.

Anyhoo, if you think going thru all this is quite troublesome, you can alway watch the show online @ www.mysouju.com

I hope this help!
_________________

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:02 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Wow thanks for posting this I've been searching high and low to get rmvb to work...

But I have another problem, that once I got the subtitles to appear...they're out of sync with the audio. so i'm reading a conversation somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds later which isn't that bad but when you randomly get words popping up in silence it kind of throws you for a loop. I was wondering if anyone had any idea how to fix this. I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:44 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Well, I don't see if the original poster of this thread got an answer, and I'm not sure if I get the problem, so I'm going to comment at will. You all might want to duck and cover...

I've never cared for Real player on macs or pcs. Have you played with UnRarX? You might give that a whirl.

Good luck.

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:27 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

mmpegx has worked for me but it has become clear that it is at best imperfect solution for a variety of reasons. First, and foremost although it installed and worked well for me many people have had less luck despite following all the steps precisely. Even when it works it is less than ideal because the conversion often causes a significant degradation in picture quality and it just takes a bunch of time to do the conversions. Luckily there appears to finally be a real solution to watching real files with softsubs on macs. Mplayer's most recent builds have worked quite well on my Macbook with real files and have the option to load softsubs. A few of things to bear in mind: 1. I have only used it on intel based macs running tiger or leopard versions of osX so I can't comment on performance with gseries macs or older os. 2. Mplayer does not recognize the subs automatically like some players. You must use the menus to choose and load subs yourself. On the up side the subs may be in a different location as the video file and have a different name unlike players such as vlc. 3. Installing Mplayers can seem like an onerous chore since it must be compiled by you. However, that is not really true. If you google Mplayer and find the website the download section will mention "unofficial builds" and have a link for them. If you pick the latest osX build it will be a nice ready to go .dmg that has the features needed for the real and subs playback. I hope this stands as a good solution for any who may need it.

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i tried mplayer, getting it from the "unofficial builds" section like you reccommended... it will play my avi files just fine, but for my rmvb files i only get audio... the video part never pops up. which version did you download/use?

i also tried to play my avi file w/ a sub file and the subs never showed up... (i manually opened the avi file and the sub file from w/in mplayer)... is there a special way to do it?

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Sorry, I failed to mention one important step. Along with downloading the most recent unofficial build you need to download the binary codec package. Those are found on the main download page on mplayer's site. (the same page that the link to the unofficial builds is found) Just scroll down and pick the package appropriate for your mac and download. The installer will automatically put it in the right place for the mplayer build to access. Once you have done that real videos should play just fine. Sometimes mplayer doesn't seem to are if the names of the video file and sub file do not match and sometimes it does seem to care. If you are having problems I would make sure the names match and if not rename them to match. I have not done much with avi on mplayer. On my mac avi files tend to play more smoothly with vlc than with mplayer so I have only been using mplayer with real files.

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

omg thank you so much!!! that was so much easier than trying to convert the files....