Talk:RealVideo

Iterated Systems

Is RealVideo really developed by RealNetworks? This review says it was licensed to RealNetworks from Iterated Systems. Did RealNetworks buy out Iterated Systems? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.61.33.211 (talk) 18:28, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Response: I've added a bit about ClearVideo and its subsequent disappearance. At this point, all references to ClearVideo seem to have been removed from RealNetworks web site, except for a brief mention of an error message indicating that ClearVideo is not supported. If anyone knows what happened to Iterated Systems, feel free to write something about it. -- Mcoder 13:01, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

RealVideo Players

What "other software exists which can save the streams to files for later viewing"? Thanks!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 12:43, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Don't suppose you saw the part right after that about saving streams generally being illegal? Not discouraging doing it myself, but I doubt you'll get help finding the program by asking on a public wiki page... CanadaAotS (talk) 02:08, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't have a good enough english to edit the main article. But note that now ffmpeg/libavcodec (so any mplayer, vlc, xine or gstreamer-based player, plus any DirectShow/Windows player through ffdshow) can play newer RealVideo files. See http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ ("RealVideo 3.0 decoder added." and "we now have a decoder for RealVideo 4.0") or http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html ("FFmpeg RV40 decoder", change RV40 for RV10, RV20 and RV30). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.2.49.89 (talk) 21:14, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

ClearVideo/RealVideo - SoftVideo - TruDef

ClearVideo was developed alongside SoftVideo in a partnership between Iterated Systems Inc. and Total Multi Media Inc. (TMMI) during the 1990's with MCI providing most of the financing as an investor in TMMI.

Philip Taylor Kramer from TMMI was a major contributor in the success of fractal video. Up to that point Iterated's success was limited to still fractal image compression. Philip Taylor Kramer disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1995, meanwhile TMMI fell into bankruptcy. In 1997 Iterated announced the ClearVideo deal with RealNetworks which was offered as RealVideo. Meanwhile TMMI emerged from bankruptcy in 1998 at which time RealNetworks quietly discontinued all support for RealVideo.

TMMI continued and is still in operation today. In 2007 TMMI announced a new version of SoftVideo called TruDef, being the only known video codec that uses fractal compression under active development.