.RPL File Extension

Replay of a match performed in Toribash, a 3D fighting game where players design the fighters' moves; saved in a high-quality MPEG format that can be viewed on multiple platforms.

Game replay file created by Special Force, an online first-person shooter game; saves a first-person perspective video captured during gameplay; sometimes used to submit replays of cheaters to game authorities.

RPL files are saved to the C:\Program Files\DFIGAMES\Dragonfly\Special Force\Data\Save\ directory.

NOTE: DF Interactive Special Force has been discontinued.

An RPL file is a cinema print master file created using Dolby Atmos Monitor and a Dolby Rendering and Mastering Unit, a professional sound rendering system that is made available to only select, cinema-grade filmmakers. It contains audio that is designed to be included in a film that will be played in a Dolby Atmos theater. RPL files can also be played back in the commercially-available Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite and Dolby Atmos Production Suite, using Dolby Atmos Renderer.

Dolby provides certain filmmakers and studios with a specially-licensed computer that is designed specifically to let sound engineers and designers create cinema-grade Dolby Atmos audio tracks. These computers, called Dolby Rendering and Mastering Units, are controlled from a secondary PC using Avid Pro Tools, a separately-licensed digital audio workstation, and the Dolby Atmos Monitor. The Monitor is used to condense all the audio files and other information included within a movie's Pro Tools project into one master audio track, which is saved with the .rpl extension. This RPL file is then included within a movie before that movie is shipped to and played at Dolby Atmos theaters.

While non-cinema-level filmmakers cannot create RPL files, they can play them. Dolby's commercially-available Atmos Mastering Suite and Atmos Production Suite can both play RPL files, using the Dolby Atmos Renderer included within those suites.

You can open and play an RPL file with Dolby Atmos Renderer, the audio rendering application included within the Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite and Dolby Atmos Production Suite. To do so, open the Renderer and select File → Open Master File.

You can also convert an RPL file to a more usable format, such as WAV, with the Dolby Atmos Conversion Tool included within Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite.

An RPL file contains video data encoded with the ESCAPE codec and uncompressed or compressed audio data stored in the ARMovie multimedia container format. It is used in various computer games including Big Red Racing and the Tomb Raider series. RPL files are primarily used for saving replays of gameplay.

All of the games that utilize RPL files are discontinued, with most of them being released in the 1990s. Since the files are no longer used to save replays you will most likely only encounter them if you have installed one of these older Eidos-developed PC games.

The RPL files all utilize the same multimedia container but may store video encoded in different variations of the ESCAPE codec. The variations include ESCAPE 122, 124, and 130.

NOTE: Eidos Interactive was acquired by Square Enix in 2009.

There are few programs that support RPL files since they are rarely used. However, you can open and convert RPL files to more common video formats with FFmpeg, then open the converted file with a media player, such as Microsoft Windows Media Player or VLC media player.