How do I convert from OGV(theora) to AVI?

[James Wilson]

Hello,

I need to convert the conatainer of my video file from ogg(ogv) to AVI, while retaining the Theora compressed core.
Is this possible? I've already tried FFMPEG.

Thanks,
James

[gonwk]

Hi James,

Look at Post #5 in this thread ...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=665836

Also this might give you a clue ... to zero on a converter that handles OGG period.

http://www.filesuffix.com/extension/ogv.html

I am not sure but SUPER might do the trick also ... I know it does OGG Audio ... but I am not sure if it handles Video ... but here is the download for the proggy ...

http://www.digital-digest.com/software/download.php?sid=1119&ssid=0&did=2

Post back your results for the next person's benefit.

G!

[James Wilson]

mencoder

I actually found that thread already, but haven't been able to find a download of MEncoder, just SMplayer, which supposedly includes it, but I didn't find it in that package.

[MilesAhead]

Are you running Windows? If so, try videohelp.com you should be able to get MEncoder there. Also there is a direct link to download SUPER. I could never manage to download SUPER direct from the SUPER web page. There's some circular reference that requires some Einsteinian time warp or something. It's much easier to just get it from videohelp.com. Anyway, SUPER I believe, has MEncoder as one of the encoders.

I think there are some other GUIs using MEncoder also on videohelp.com

If you're on Linux then it's been a few years since I Slackwared. I didn't get into video conversions on Linux back then.