demuxing ogm and subtitles

[xooz98]

hi

i'm about to convert my ogms to mkv so i can mux in idx/sub subtitles: is there any loss of quality (or anything else) when demuxing ogm -> avi and ogg, and, just in case, is there any idx/sub support coming for ogm in the (near) future? i have tried using graphedit with the directvobsub filters instead of oggmux but i cannot get a playable file.

thanks!

[stephanV]

No loss in quality, youll probably lose some overhead though :) and gain a whole lot of flexibility. You can also convert directly to MKV with VirtualDubMod, but youd still have to mux the subtitles in later.

[celtic_druid]

or you could just directly add the ogm and subs to MMG.

[Liisachan]

Originally posted by xooz98
is there any idx/sub support coming for ogm in the (near) future?

As you may already know, you can load IDX+SUB as softsubs on OGM if you don't mind having them (your idx+sub files) as external files. If you have foo.ogm foo.idx and foo.sub in the same folder and if you play foo.ogm, directVobsub and/or MPC will autoload idx+sub.

If you want to embed those subs in OGM, you'll have to convert them into SRT by OCRing. Not a comfortable work, but text subs would be much compact, and the quality is much better than image subs like idx+sub.

You can mux IDX+SUB if you use MKV, but plz note that once you do that you cannot demux them from MKV atm. You might want to save your IDX+SUB files separately just in case.