What are the limits of OGM?

[Shaggy999]

I was trying to put together the Deluxe Ed of Black Hawk Down into an *.ogm file w/ all 3 commentary tracks and realized that the dropdown box doesn't allow user input for naming a track. This was annoying because I didn't want 3 tracks all named the same. After a little fiddling around I saw the export button and exported the settings to a file. I opened it up and changed the name of the audio tracks, then imported, muxed the files together, and prest-o. I finally had what I wanted. However, it wasn't exactly what I wanted. For instance, one of the tracks I labeled:

"Commentary - Director Ridley Scott & Producer Jerry Bruckheimer"

and it came out:

"Commentary - Director Ridley Scott Producer Jerry Bruckheimer"

So obviously some characters aren't going to come through. So what I am wondering is....

1) What characters are legal in naming an audio track?
2) What is the maximum length of a track name?
3) Is what I am doing technically not allowed by the OGM standard (as in, this is a bug) and the choices are really limited to those in the dropdown box, or is the dropdown box just simply a user interface problem and it's ok to do what I'm doing?

[Hiro2k]

First of all what program are you using to mux your OGM? There are 3 good ones: OggMux by Koepi, VirtualDubMod, and OGMuxer by Suircy.

And if I remeber correctly, Koepi once said that he didn't want to add all sorts of things like Dirrector Commentary and what not into the language list. But I thought that in VdubMod you could add your languages as whatever you want. Also if you use the .omx file that were included in OggMuxer or in Suircy OGMuxer, I think you can set the language to whatever you want.

This thread should be in the New AV forum.

[Koepi]

You can add the languages via the omx file, this is true.
unfortunately not all types of signs are possible, you have to test around a little - if you check the files, the name will be correct in there, it's the dshow interface to the media players which kills those signs.

The reasons you can't edit the text in the dropdown boxes is that it made big trouble to update the internal variables correctly - if you changes one text in an edit box and then in another one, the first change didn't make it into the variables :(

Thus i had to disable that possibility.

Regards
Koepi

[Shaggy999]

Ya know, I wasn't too sure which forum to put it into. I figured this was a newbie question. And sorry about not mentioning which program I used, I thought I had mentioned it. I am using oggmux.

So what I'm doing is okay according to whatever the ogm standard is and it's just a limitation of the interface?