[MPlayer-users] combining multiple CDs (of a movie)

[James Lancaster]

On Friday 07 February 2003 19:37, you wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi !
>
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 20:31:05 +0530
>
> Dr Chittaranjan Mandal <chitta at cse.iitkgp.ernet.in> wrote:
> > Is there a way to combine the contents of
> > multiple CDs of a movie into a single entity to avoid changing CDs.
>
> If you have 2 Drives (maybe a DVD and a CD-Recorder like me), you
> can do some sequential playing (here with VCDs, Fullscreen, 1st disc in
> DVD, 2nd in CDR):
>
> film at garrett:~$ mplayer -vcd 1 -fs ; mplayer -vcd 1 fs -cdrom-device
> /dev/scd0
>
> On my computer, between the two discs there is about 500msec pause,
> hardly noticeable. You can even extend this method to >2 discs, you just
> have to put the 3rd disc in the DVD drive while the 2nd is playing...
>
> >  One option would be to combine them into a big iso file to be
> >  stored on a harddisk rather than an actual CD.
>
> Huh, AFAIK mencoder can't join videos, maybe avidemux can help. If
> mencoder can do it after all, someone hit me now please *g*
> One way or another, IMHO joining to harddisk every multi-CD-movie I'd
> like to watch would be more painful than getting up to change CDs during
> the movie...
>

See
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/encoding.html#fixing
(and the section below that)

and yes, it works just fine (if same type of video/audio, etc)
James L

> CU
>
> Martin Emrich
>
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