[vlc] Re: Question about .ogm files

[James MacLean]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Måns Rullgård wrote:

> Sigurd Stordal <sigurd.stordal at stud.ibg.uit.no> writes:
> 
> > On Sunday 01 August 2004 23:11, you wrote:
> >> Stephen Barta <mactch84 at cox.net> writes:
> >> > I have a bunch of .ogm files that I have downloaded and I really want
> >> > to convert them to mpg or avi so I can either make a dvd or vcd.  Do
> >> > you guys know of any converters out there?
> >>
> >> If I had the specs for the ogm format I'd write one.  Does anyone know
> >> where to get them?
> > simple, it's xvid encoded video, and ogg encoded audio. google for
> > ogg would probably tell you more, I think you can have multiple
> > video and audio streams inside it but are not sure.
> 
> Yes, looking closer at an ogm file that's what it looks like.
> However, the spec on xiph.org doesn't mention how to determine which
> codec is used for a stream.  I suppose I'll just have to reverse
> engineer it if I can't find any documentation.
> 

I'm probably off on another continent here, but the ogmtools suite has an
ogminfo application that tries to find out about the streams.

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/ogmtools/

Hope it helps,
JES
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James B. MacLean        macleajb at ednet.ns.ca
Department of Education 
Nova Scotia, Canada
     

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