[Twinkie]

I have a couple of videos that are OGM and I have not been able to find anythign that will convert them on the Mac. I have tryed installing the vorbis codec in quicktime but it only lets me play the OGG format audio from the OGM video. I have also tryed to convert the videos in FFMpegX with no luck. I would like to get these videos on my 5th G Ipod. If they were in just about any other file type besides OGM I could most likely get them to Mpeg-4 without any problems. So if soeone could just please tell me how to get them into anything else besides OGM first, I would greatly appreciate it.

~Twinkie

[Uncle Skeleton]

If you download the CLI ogmtools you can demux the streams to their "native" file formats (of course video and audio codecs don't have "native" file formats, but it puts vorbis in ogg files and xvid in avi files). OGM can hold any codec though, so you might end up with RM video or something else. If you can open the movie in VLC that's a good sign, hit command-i to see what codecs are used. Actually, if you can play it in VLC, VLC has a transcoding wizard and it can just convert the file for you. It would be better to demux with ogmtools (because it's lossless) and then convert to mp4 with whatever you want, since VLC will probably not give you something that's ipod compatible. But VLC will be more GUI oriented for you.

What exactly gave you "no luck" about ffmpegX?

[Twinkie]

It would say unrecognized in the drop box and then when i try to export it anyways as soon as i start it says its done and the exported file is nothing but white and is only like a second.