How to Play RMVB Files on Windows 8

"How can I play RMVB files?", recently we've noticed a lot of people asking the same question.

What's RMVB?
RealMedia Variable Bitrate (RMVB) is a variable bitrate extension of the RealMedia multimedia container format developed by RealNetworks. As opposed to the more common RealMedia container, which holds streaming media encoded at a constant bitrate (CBR), RMVB is typically used for multimedia content stored locally. Files using this format have the file extension ".rmvb".
RMVB files are extremely popular for distributing Asian content, especially Chinese television episodes and movies. For this reason, they have become noticeably present (though not entirely popular, partly due to their incompatibility with other media players) on file sharing platforms such as BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella.

How can i play RMVB files? On the Windows platform, the proprietary RealPlayer SP and the open-sourced Media Player Classic support RMVB, using an appropriate DirectShow filter or Real Alternative. The format is also supported for playback by the cross-platform VLC media player.



As a matter of fact, RMVB videos are widely available on web, but this video format limits itself because they cannot be played on Apple QuickTime and Windows Media Player, which supports video formats such as AVI, MKV, etc. Hence in order to play RMVB videos on other more popular mobile devices, users need to convert videos in RMVB to AVI format.

Perhaps maybe you want to convert RMVB files to other video format. Now you could convert this unusual video format to any video format with your favorite video converter software, format factory or other...

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How to Convert RMVB to AVI?

1.Download and install CloneDVD 7, adding RMVB video file by clicking "Add" in the main interface. And you could preview the video.

2.Click Setting Button, select the video format you aimed, e.g., AVI, as the output format，and adjust Video Size/ Bitrates, Audio Bitrates to get perfect converted video files with excellent screen/visual effects.

3.Select the output folder to save the converted video.

4.Click "Start" button to convert RMVB to AVI.
If you want to merge all videos into one file, you could check the select at the bottom of "Start" button.

After all above steps,we could view the avi files in all popular video players. And also you could convert rmvb files to other SD/HD video & audio formats such as MP4, MOV, 3GP, MKV, TS, H. 264, M4A, FLV, MP3, AC3, etc. allowing users to play on your PSP, PS3, iPod, iPhone4/4S/5, Apple TV, Xbox, HTC, Samsung, Google phones, iPad/iPad2/3/Mini and other multimedia portable devices.