[MPlayer-users] Appending multiple AVI files - PROBLEM

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:20:35PM -0500, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I---> KB <----I wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >This scrip not work for me
> >
> >cat 1.avi 2.avi | mencoder -noidx -ovc copy -oac copy -o output.avi -
> >
> >I can´t join the avi files, please ,any idea .......
> 
> Your English is fine, though the word is "script," not "scrip." I'm 
> quite sure that simply concatentating the raw bytes of AVI files will 
> not work. Have you tried the "avicat" command, which is part of avifile? 
> There is also the "avimerge" command, part of transcode, though some 
> else on the list pointed out that the transcode tools may only work with 
> transcode-generated AVI's.

Actually, it *should* work, if the files have identical codecs and
encoding parameters. But YMMV. It's not very reliable.

Rich