Converting ogm to avi

venus2 · Post by **venus2** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:40 am

Hi, I have a lot of ogm files that I would like to convert to avi, I tried all methods like OGM to Avi, AlltoAvi, Avi2DVD but it won't work. I found VirtualDubMod and Avidemux but I can't use them, can anyone help me with them? Like give me the step by step and if needed any codecs, on how to use them?

Thanks for any help!

M.H.A.Q.S. · Post by **M.H.A.Q.S.** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:24 am

http://www.theora.org/

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:06 pm

M.H.A.Q.S. wrote:http://www.theora.org/

That's probably not going to help.

You need the full version of ffdshow (look for ffdshow-tryouts) - make sure that every format you have selected for it to decode in the Video decoder is also selected in the VFW. Open the file in VDubMod, and tell it to Direct Stream Copy the video stream over to AVI (the option is in the Video menu and also in the Save dialog). If the audio is Vorbis, you should use the Audio Compression functions to convert it to CBR MP3.

Rapture** · Post by Rapture** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:09 pm

Qyot27 wrote:Open the file in VDubMod, and tell it to Direct Stream Copy the video stream over to AVI (the option is in the Video menu and also in the Save dialog). If the audio is Vorbis, you should use the Audio Compression functions to convert it to CBR MP3.

I'm sure you know this,but I guess use AviSynth&DirectShowSource would be much easier than droppin' it into VDubMod,since VDubMod mostly crashes when importing downloaded .ogm files..

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:05 pm

Rapture** wrote:I'm sure you know this,but I guess use AviSynth&DirectShowSource would be much easier than droppin' it into VDubMod,since VDubMod mostly crashes when importing downloaded .ogm files..

Using DirectShowSource is only advisable when the format cannot be handled through VFW period or at least without considerably-altering hacks. It introduces other problems - OGM's lack of stability notwithstanding. It isn't even all that hard to transmux OGM to MKV (MKVMerge makes it child's play) and then open that in VDub - and unlike the reports surrounding OGM, MKV usually doesn't crash it.

Rapture** · Post by Rapture** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:34 pm

Qyot27 wrote:MKV usually doesn't crash it.

Well,it's not that I'm using it because VDubMod crashes,but to clean it up a bit..

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Then I guess I'll leave this up to you,since you seem to know more about this...

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:24 pm

Qyot27 wrote: ... transmux OGM to MKV (MKVMerge ...

..you mean MKvMerge will just swap the containers for you ???

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:00 am

post-it wrote:
Qyot27 wrote: ... transmux OGM to MKV (MKVMerge ...
..you mean MKvMerge will just swap the containers for you ???

Yeah, it's purpose is to create MKV files from source streams. It has support for AVI, MP4, OGM, etc.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:22 am

The correct way to do this would be to download GraphEdit, render the .ogm files, pipe the video output into an AVI writer, and pipe the audio into a WAV or MP3 encoder and then into the AVI writer.

venus2 · Post by **venus2** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:24 am

I'm really sorry but when I used the VirtualDubMod there's no audio and I got a little confused with what you were trying to say, can you explain better for me? I'm dumb when it comes to stuff like this, and also the GraphEdit, it's not working.

I tried the OGM to Avi converter and when it converted, it gave me this msg box that says the AviMux Gui (?) is experiencing problems and will shut down, do you know why?

Thank you