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Title: Media Center and .ogm?
Post by: lOth on March 09, 2003, 07:17:52 am

Has anyone successfully played an .ogm file with Media Jukebox/Center? It plays fine with WMP 9 on my computer but I get a "Please select file(s) to play" warning when I try to open the same file with MC9. Is it possible to play that kind of file with MC?

Title: Re: Media Center and .ogm?
Post by: rocketsauce on March 09, 2003, 08:59:47 am

I don' see .ogm listed in Tools/Options/File Associations, so most likely it is not a supported format.

Rob

Title: Re: Media Center and .ogm?
Post by: xen-uno on March 09, 2003, 04:28:18 pm

Might be possible if MC natively (or through WinAmp plug-ins) supported the FLAC format...since an OGM is a FLAC file wrapped in a Ogg container. I've always wondered what the benefits of this would be.

R_x

Title: Re: Media Center and .ogm?
Post by: jakobluck on March 10, 2003, 05:01:25 am

ogm is actually an avi file wrapped in an ogm container, with an ogg audio track. it shouldn't be that hard to get working in mc, since a free decoder are readily available and support can be easily added for it. lack of ogm support is the only thing holding me back from using MC for ALL of my media needs.

Title: Re: Media Center and .ogm?
Post by: lOth on March 10, 2003, 05:03:38 am

So JRiver people, any chance to get ogm support soon?

Title: Re: Media Center and .ogm?
Post by: xen-uno on March 10, 2003, 06:07:32 am

Jako...

Your right...guess I was thinking of an ogg/flac that still uses the ogg extension. Now I see the purpose of OGM.

10^-27

Title: Re: Media Center and .ogm?
Post by: Raistlin2000 on March 10, 2003, 06:15:27 am

OGM is NOT an avi wrapped into an ogm-container, ogg audio doesn't exist. If you don't believe me, check out Doom9's forum.

Ogg is a new container-format offering advanced streaming & error detection capabilities, why it is used as main container-format for the XCD-project.

The audio-codec is called Vorbis. Since it was not possible to create avi's containing vorbis where audio was in sync with video, Tobias Waldvogel, a German living in Spain, created a special encoder-decoder-filterset that allows to write any videostream into a ogg-file. To avoid confusion, he gave it a new extension since this "was" not a normal ogg, but modified one.
Now Tobias has joined Xiph-org, so OGM will become a standard.

Since OGM has become a real standard for the future, I hope to see a plugin for this in MC as well as XCD-support.

Thanks
Raist

Title: Re: Media Center and .ogm?
Post by: rocketsauce on March 10, 2003, 07:28:41 am

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ogg audio doesn't exist...The audio-codec is called Vorbis.

There was a post by one of the Xiph devs at HA Forums a couple of months ago regarding this. He was basically asking people to try to get the terminology correct: Ogg is the container and Vorbis audio is just one of the many types of information that it can contain.

Rob