Real Player Movies

Contents:
Real Player
Real Producer
Cortona Movie Maker

Real Player

Real Player 8 Real Systems site

Real Producer

Real Producer page
Versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux 2.2, and Solaris 2.7.
The free download is at the top of the page.

Recommended settings for Real Producer

These are the setting I recommend for most animations. I usually use Voice with Background music as Voice only doesn't pickup quiet speech or some sound effects.

Target Audience
56K Modem
Note: This doesn't prevent people with 28K connections from viewing the file online.
It may mean there are black pauses while more of the file is transfered.
Video Quality
Sharpest Image Video
Audio Format
Voice with Background music
or
Music
or
Stereo Music

Cortona Movie Maker

Cortona Movie Maker
This product from Parallel Graphics makes video animations directly from VRML and includes a Real Video encoder. A lot better than the standard screen grabber.

Using Real Player Movies in VRML

#VRML V2.0 utf8

Group {
 children [
  Shape {
   appearance Appearance {
    material Material {}
    texture DEF Mov MovieTexture {
     startTime -1
     url "xyz.rm"
     speed 0.1
    }
   }
   geometry IndexedFaceSet {
    coord Coordinate {
     point [
      -1.5 1.5 0, 1.5 1.5 0,
      -1.5 -1.5 0, 1.5 -1.5 0,
     ]
    }
    coordIndex [ 0, 1, 3, 2, -1, ]
   }
  }
  DEF Touch TouchSensor {}
 ]
}

ROUTE Touch.touchTime TO Mov.startTime

Examples

Example using a live video feed from BBC world's 24 hour news channel (click on screen after a few seconds)