OGM video Codec Convertion to DVD

[Kiiw-Hawk]

Hi

I have a movie I got off the net I'd like to make into a DVD but it's an ogm extention, I can play it but can't make it into a DVD I believe it's a MAC format ( I might be wrong ) but non of the DVD tools I have will make a DVD from it, any pointers please and jus in finishing is the VOS DivXtoDVD tool the best for converting or is there somethnig that give better quality?

Cheers
Hawk

[anonymez]

ogm is just a container for video and audio data. it has several advantages over avi, but is not supported by many converting programs. to make it into an avi file (quickly and cleanly, with no encoding done):

open the file in virtualdubmod, then under 'video', select 'direct stream copy'. then under 'file', click 'save as avi'. it will put the video into the avi container

then convert with program of your coice, i recommend 'mainconcept', but most will want to use 'tmpgenc'. then tmpgenc dvd author. guides at http://www.afterdawn.com and http://www.doom9.org

[LT. Columbo]

that's the system i use, excellent advice IMO by anonymez. you MAY find that you need to demux and convert the audio if you wish to encode in tmpgenc

[Kiiw-Hawk]

ogm is just a container for video and audio data. it has several advantages over avi, but is not supported by many converting programs. to make it into an avi file (quickly and cleanly, with no encoding done):

open the file in virtualdubmod, then under 'video', select 'direct stream copy'. then under 'file', click 'save as avi'. it will put the video into the avi container

then convert with program of your coice, i recommend 'mainconcept', but most will want to use 'tmpgenc'. then tmpgenc dvd author. guides at http://www.afterdawn.com and http://www.doom9.org

Thanks very much for that help,.. I got down virtualdubmod and did as you said works ok but is it spose to drop the audio out and make a video only file?

Cheers
Hawk

PS having another shot at it

[anonymez]

i forgot to mention that avi does not support 'ogg' audio, which is slightly better than mp3. to get the audio to a separate file:

open the original file in vdubmod, under 'streams', click 'stream list'. click 'demux', and save. this will output the audio to a separate file, which you can input through tmpgenc

ps. if it doesn't work properly, download & install 'ogg ds filters'. use google to find it...

[Kiiw-Hawk]

i forgot to mention that avi does not support 'ogg' audio, which is slightly better than mp3. to get the audio to a separate file:

open the original file in vdubmod, under 'streams', click 'stream list'. click 'demux', and save. this will output the audio to a separate file, which you can input through tmpgenc

ps. if it doesn't work properly, download & install 'ogg ds filters'. use google to find it...

I got it all out just needed to change ogg to wav to get the audio to sync right only problem now is TMPGEnc is erroring says when I start to encode
"There is no quoted number of character-string'%.sf." and stops encoding

Cheers
Hawk

[anonymez]

that error happens for 2 reasons: when you don't have enough space on your hard disk, and when your file system is 'FAT32', and not 'NTFS', so it doesn't support files over 4GB in size.

if you don't have enough space on your hard disk (at least 10GB), free up some space

if your file system is 'FAT32', either convert to 'NTFS' (can only be done on windows 2000 and above) or set the final output size to less than 4GB

here are the steps to convert to NTFS, if you're currently using FAT32 : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...onvertfat.mspx

[Kiiw-Hawk]

Hi



Thanks a heap thats working,.. take about 17 18 hours on my box but.

First file it made a mv2 or somit with no audio but got it making an mpg this trip, it doing 1/1 frame I guess it needs a lot of grunt.

I have an AMD 2400 with 1gig ram and 128mg FX5600 video it's set on system audio+video, wasn't sure about ES audio+Video so left default ( normaly the safest)

Cheers
Hawk

[anonymez]

you're welcome

did you check out the guides at http://www.afterdawn.com and http://www.doom9.org ? the settings in those guides are quite good.

[Enquisitor]

There are other better tools out there. To demux an OGM file (which usually has subtitles) use a command line tool called OGMdemuxer. You don't install it, you just drag and drop the file onto the .exe file. All streams will be demuxed in that folder quickly. A quicker way to convert the avi file is use either VSO divxtodvd or winavi. These programs will make a dvd in real time or faster. Then you have to demux the DVD (.vob) files. There are several ways to do this. If the movie is in one single vob file, use vob edit. If the movie is in mutliple vobs, you will need to join them before demuxing. The software I use is DVD-lab. This is a dvd author. When you import the vob files it gives the option to join and demux in one shot. Once that is done you will need to convert the .ogg sound track to a playable dvd track. Through trial and error I found that many converters screw up the time stamp which leads to lip sync errors. The only one that works for me is FairStars audio converter. Convert the file to WAV at 48000 Hz. That can then be used on a dvd. I took one step further a nd converted the sound to AC3 2CH using TMPGenc AC3 plugin, which I used through DVDlab. DVDlab will also import the subtitles if there are any. Use DVD lab to put it all together and you have your DVD in about half the time it takes TMPGenc just to transcode the video. Enjoy! Somtimes Winavi will do the whole thing for you in real time or faster depending on the file.