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splynncryth
06-10-2006, 02:15 AM
The past few months have found me in an airplane quite frequently. While I have a notebook, it simply does not work well for me as a movie viewer. So I would like to get a PVP. The problem is that many of the media I have and would like to watch are in encapsulated formats such as OGM and MP4. From what I have read, I would guess that these cannot be dumped strait onto any PMP out there and expected to work. Most of the codecs are pretty standard, I have some Divx, XviD, h.260, mp3, acm and stuff like that. But a few things have a separate stream for subtitles. As far as I have been able to find, no PVP supports this. SO I went looking for something I could potentially write software for, but the very few units I've found are flash based. There is no way I'm going to fit enough video and music on a flash based player to keep me happy for the trips I have been taking.

Am I mistaken and there are players out there that can use the encapsulated formats out of the box? Is there a hard drive based player that has an existing developer community and an SDK?
Jason Dunn
06-12-2006, 07:06 PM
Hmm. That's a tough one - I've never worked with OGM before, so I know nothing about it. Some Googling turned up this:

http://www.misticriver.net/archive/index.php/t-4850.html

It seems like converting the files is your only option.

This is one reason why I prefer using media that I own on DVD - I can convert it to what I need. ;-)
splynncryth
06-14-2006, 04:33 AM
I was afraid there was not a PMP out there to handle the files with multiple streams. But might there be any HD based PMPs that have a home brew community?

The OGMs were ripped from the DVDs. At the time, it was the best way to get all the audio available on the disk, and the subtitles where available. I was just hoping I could avoid paying the additional 'toll' or reencoding the4 files and storing them on my network.

Thanks for the help.
Jason Dunn
06-14-2006, 04:12 PM
The OGMs were ripped from the DVDs. At the time, it was the best way to get all the audio available on the disk, and the subtitles where available.

I have to admit, I'm still a bit baffled - these are DVDs, movies presumably, with subtitles...but I'm sure you can rip DVDs, with subtitles included, and output to DivX or something similar. What does OGM offer? I feel like I'm missing something. :?