OGMtools 1.0.1 ============== These tools allow information about (ogminfo) or extraction from (ogmdemux) or creation of (ogmmerge) or the splitting of (ogmsplit) OGG media streams. OGM is used for "OGG media streams". Base code taken from Ogg/Vorbis CVS repository at http://www.xiph.org/ Installation is simple. Run './configure' followed by 'make' and 'make install'. If, for some reason, there is no 'configure' script then run './autogen.sh' which will recreate it. The full documentation for each command is now maintained in its man page only. Type 'ogmmerge -h' to get you started. This code comes under the GPL (see www.gnu.org or the file COPYING). Modify as needed. The newest version can always be found at http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/ogmtools/index.html Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org> ------------------ Example ======= Here's a *very* brief example of how you could use the ogmtools with mencoder in order to rip a DVD: a) Extract the audio to PCM audio and let mencoder calculate the video frame numbers: mencoder -dvd 1 -ovc frameno -oac pcm -o frameno.avi b) Extract the audio again, this time to a plain WAV file: mplayer -dvd 1 -vc dummy -vo null -hardframedrop -ao pcm -aofile audio.wav At the moment selecting a non-existant video codec with -vc results in the fastest audio dump. c) Normalize the sound (optional) normalize audio.wav d) Encode the audio to Vorbis: oggenc -q3 -oaudio-q3.ogg audio.wav e) Somehow calculate the bitrate for your video. Use something like... video_size = (target_size - audio-size) / 1.0115 video_bitrate = video_size / length / 1024 * 8 target_size, audio_size in bytes length in seconds 1.0115 is the overhead caused by putting the streams into an OGM file. video_bitrate will be in kbit/s f) Use the two-pass encoding for the video: mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vhq:vqmin=2:vpass=1 \ -vop scale=....,crop=..... \ -o /dev/null mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vhq:vqmin=2:vpass=2 \ -vop scale=....,crop=..... \ -o movie.avi g) Merge: ogmmerge -o movie.ogm -A movie.avi audio-q3.ogg -A is necessary in order to avoid copying the raw PCM audio as well.