[ogg-dev] archive of legacy oggenc/oggenc2 encoders for windows?

Silvia Pfeiffer silvia at silvia-pfeiffer.de
Thu Aug 6 22:08:47 PDT 2009


Ah - I didn't quit get that you were after Vorbis only. :-) Kept
thinking Theora.
Nice work.
Cheers,
Silvia.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Ethan Bordeaux<ethan.bordeaux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the info - I was able to find exactly what I was looking for
> here:
>
> http://codecs.ex-sounds.net/ogg/vorbis/oggenc/
>
> As for what I'm up to, I have a memory-limited port of the Tremor Vorbis
> decoder that I want to test on some older vorbis encoders for backwards
> compatibility purposes.  Nothing too nefarious.  ;)
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silvia at silvia-pfeiffer.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think if you are only interested in applications, your best bet for
>> theora encoders is probably ffmpeg2theora, which I believe was used
>> for most encoding tasks in past years. Note that it uses libtheora
>> directly, while plain ffmpeg has its own theora encoder. The Theora
>> files that ffmpeg used to create until recently were not of great
>> quality, so I hope there aren't that many of those files around still.
>> Also note that mencoder has the capabilities to encode Theora.
>>
>> On the Mac - if you don't like the command-line encoders - there is
>> ffmpegX, which is a graphical user interface for ffmpeg. More recently
>> on the Mac I used the XiphQT component to directly transcode from
>> iMovie, so that did not use ffmpeg2theora.
>>
>> On Windows, I am not so versed with encoding tools that have a UI. I
>> would say that on the command line ffmpeg2theora would have been used
>> mostly and possibly the encoder that comes as part of the oggcodecs DS
>> filters. However, more likely, there is a tool with a graphical UI
>> that uses either ffmpeg underneath or the oggcodecs DS filters on
>> Windows - you would need to google a bit.
>>
>> Hope that helps - I am curious what you are trying to do though.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Silvia.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Ethan Bordeaux<ethan.bordeaux at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Interesting - is there any easy way to tie each of these builds to a
>> > windows
>> > application?  I'm really not so familiar with how to do those types of
>> > things - didn't even know what DSF was until a few minutes ago!
>> >
>> > Ethan
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer
>> > <silvia at silvia-pfeiffer.de>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> All old builds of the DS filters are at
>> >> http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/oggdsf/ .
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Silvia.
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Ethan
>> >> Bordeaux<ethan.bordeaux at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi, I was wondering if there's anywhere I could find an archive with
>> >> > all
>> >> > of
>> >> > the previously released ogg encoders, specifically windows binaries.
>> >> > I
>> >> > know
>> >> > I could rebuild every version from source, but it would be a lot
>> >> > easier
>> >> > if I
>> >> > could just grab the executables.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks.
>> >> >
>> >> > Ethan
>> >> >
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