[MPlayer-users] Joining avi and mpg files

[lanzz at lanzz.org]

> > Transcode includes a tool called avimerge. I haven't tried it, though.
> 
> I did.
> Well, it a nice and very simple tool.
> The only problem is that it's based on avilib which I'd call avicrap.
> That is, it takes perfect AVIs and transforms them into a crap that even
> mplayer cannot play! (as for windows tools - forget it).
> It rounds audio rate in bizarre way. It sets flags in the header to
> arbitrary - and compiled in - values. After few hours hacking (thanks to
> mplayer -v that shows more info about AVI that avilib ever cares about)
> I've managed to merge some AVIs into something mplayer-playable.
> Still, (after burning a CD) I found that Windows Media Player GPFs on
> them. So - I'm using VirtualDub now (until mplayer -odivx will be
> able to save sound as well).

strange thing, i've used it too and had no problems at all. well at
least the resulting files played fine with mplayer, didn't try them in
winbooze.