[ghoffman]

For some reason I cant do it... it just comes out and has a blank screen, I have all the other things necissary to make the operation work but it just won't.

[Uncle Skeleton]

ffmpeg says it supports real media because they reverse engineered RM 1.0 (or some other ancient version). Nothing is really good at converting from any RM movie you're likely to see "in the wild," and even those things that are halfway good at it are windows only. sorry.

[mchladek]

I have had good success with ffmpeg and real media so far. Is ffmpeg fully encoding the video? What codec are you encoding it into? ffmpeg includes a few different encoders and I believe only the mplayer encoder will correctly handle real media. Finally, what are you trying to play the encoded video with? If you are encoding it as an avi file and trying to play it with Quicktime, that may be your problem. Will it play in VLC?