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Misanthrope · Jan 8, 2004, 01:21 AM

I know this is an area that is fairly well established and documented for PCs (specifically, Windows), but there seems to be a dearth of it on the Mac platform.

After a few good hours of prowling around the net to find a program (or tutorial, something) that would help me encode an xvid/mp3/avi or xvid/ogg/ogm I found two apps that seem to fit the bill. The first app is called HandBreak that seems to be a relic from the BeOS days. The app itself features a very nice and clean interface, and it's relatively straightforward. The only problem I've encountered is that the app just inexplicably crashes after about getting to the 15-20% completion mark. A pain in the ass indeed.

The second app that I found after ****ing with HandBreak was a program called D-Vision 2. This app seemed to be a bit more complex, but the bonus was that this program (unlike handbreak) was able to take the previously encoded xvid, along with an OGG file of the soundtrack to then put both in an OGM container. Well, I was sold. The only problem is that it can't seem to ****ing encode the OGG soundtrack at all. I've tried many different configurations and it just doesn't wanna ****ing work. Well, I trod back over to D-Vision's site, and I see something about an OGG package that must be downloaded for anything relating to OGG to work. Quickly I downloaded it and then tried to re-encode a movie to see if it'd work. Well, it didn't do a ****ing thing.

By now I'm quite frustrated and I'm beginning to think that there simply isn't any method of successfully making a OGM file on a mac (yet). So what I'm asking is: is there anyone who has successfully made an OGM file on their mac, and if so, how?

VEGAN · Jan 8, 2004, 04:17 AM

MPlayer/MEncoder

Misanthrope · Jan 8, 2004, 07:38 AM

Yes, but MEncoder doesn't even touch the OGG/OGM stuff.

Remember, I can make an xvid/mp3/avi easily with D-Vision 2, it's the conversion to OGG/OGM that is proving difficult.

VEGAN · Jan 8, 2004, 08:34 AM

Originally posted by Misanthrope:
Yes, but MEncoder doesn't even touch the OGG/OGM stuff.

Remember, I can make an xvid/mp3/avi easily with D-Vision 2, it's the conversion to OGG/OGM that is proving difficult.

Hold on. But why you need ogm anyway?
[Usually ogm means DivX video + OGG audio]

Misanthrope · Jan 8, 2004, 10:52 AM

I'd rather use OGM because I can include alternate soundtracks and subtitles.

VEGAN · Jan 9, 2004, 05:07 AM

Originally posted by Misanthrope:
I'd rather use OGM because I can include alternate soundtracks and subtitles.

You can do that with avi too and watch using VLC, methinks

The DJ · Jan 9, 2004, 07:51 AM

http://www.Matroska.org

OGM is a hacked up version of avi. it still sucks. Matroska is much better in design.

VEGAN · Jan 9, 2004, 08:23 AM

Originally posted by The DJ:
http://www.Matroska.org

OGM is a hacked up version of avi. it still sucks. Matroska is much better in design.

Nearly none of the Matroska anime work for me at all!!!
ogm is fine though.

The DJ · Jan 10, 2004, 01:17 PM

Originally posted by VEGAN:
Nearly none of the Matroska anime work for me at all!!!
ogm is fine though.

That is because for some reason those anime folks like to encode in RealVideo

it baffles me everytime i hear that.

VEGAN · Jan 10, 2004, 06:34 PM

Originally posted by The DJ:
That is because for some reason those anime folks like to encode in RealVideo

it baffles me everytime i hear that.

The ones I tried it wasn't the video that gave me trouble, it was the sound... or lack of it...