[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en faq.xml,1.64,1.65

[Diego Biurrun CVS]

CVS change done by Diego Biurrun CVS

Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/xml/en
In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv605/DOCS/xml/en

Modified Files:
	faq.xml 
Log Message:
MEncoder now supports multiple files.
patch by Oded Shimon <ods15 at ods15 dot dyndns dot org>


Index: faq.xml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.64
retrieving revision 1.65
diff -u -r1.64 -r1.65
--- faq.xml	26 Feb 2005 01:11:13 -0000	1.64
+++ faq.xml	21 Mar 2005 01:12:45 -0000	1.65
@@ -1314,20 +1314,18 @@
 How can I join two video files?
 </para></question>
 <answer><para>
-This has been discussed to no end on mplayer-users. Go search the
-<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/s-arch.cgi?sbm=mplayer-users">archives</ulink>
-for a complete answer. This is a complicated topic and your mileage may vary a
-lot depending on the kind of files you want to merge. MPEGs can be concatenated
-into a single file with luck. For AVIs there are two tools,
-<ulink url="http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/">avidemux</ulink> and
-<application>avimerge</application> (part of the
-<ulink url="http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/">transcode</ulink>
-tool set), available that might do the job. You can also try <application>MEncoder</application>
-if you have two files sharing the same dimensions and codec. Try
+MPEG files can be concatenated into a single file with luck.
+For AVI files, you can use <application>MEncoder</application>'s
+multiple file support like this:
 <screen>
-     cat file1 file2 > file3
-     mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o out.avi -forceidx file3.avi
+mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o out.avi file1.avi file2.avi
 </screen>
+This will only work if the files are of the same resolution and codec.
+You can also try
+<ulink url="http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/">avidemux</ulink> and
+<application>avimerge</application> (part of the
+<ulink url="http://www.transcoding.org/">transcode</ulink>
+tool set).
 </para></answer>
 </qandaentry>