Image::...ol::Real(3)

✨ NAME ✨

Image::ExifTool::Real — bestie, this is the lil module that reads Real audio/video meta information 💖

(also, hi, the manual name up top got squished into Image::...ol::Real(3) bc man pages love to truncate, but you and me both know the real name, and it's the one right above 👑)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

This module is used by Image::ExifTool

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. it's not a standalone girlie, it's a supporting character 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so Image::ExifTool::Real is the module holding all the routines that Image::ExifTool needs to go read the meta information inside these file types:

• RealAudio (RA)
• RealMedia (RM, RV and RMVB)
• RealMedia Metafile (RAM and RPM)

it's giving backstage crew for the main character. no cap, essential. 🫶

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🎀 NOTES 🎀

⚠️ listen. there must be a bug in the software that wrote the Metadata used in the test file t/images/Real.rm 😭

here's the tea: the TrackLyricsDataSize word is written little-endian, but the Real format is big-endian. so the file is out here doing its own thing. iconic of it, honestly, but wrong. 💀

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) 🌟

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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🌈 REFERENCES 🌈

• http://www.getid3.org/
• https://common.helixcommunity.org/nonav/2003/HCS_SDK_r5/htmfiles/rmff.htm

go read them, they're the lore 📚✨

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• "Real Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames
• Image::ExifTool(3pm)

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perl v5.42.1 🧚 2026-03-31 — that's the version and the date, bestie, and honestly this page ate. Image::...ol::Real(3) signing off, mwah 💅🎀💖