[vlc] Re: Question about .ogm files

[Måns Rullgård]

James MacLean <macleajb at ednet.ns.ca> writes:

> 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/

Thanks, in my ignorance I assumed that xiph.org would be the proper
place to look for specs.  Is this OGM format some unofficial thing,
not supported by xiph?

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Måns Rullgård
mru at kth.se

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