[MPlayer-users] Merging/manipulating video streams

[gabor]

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 23:47, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Vladimir Niksic wrote:
> 
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >I have an Mpeg2 file from satellite broadcast. I'd like to remove the
> >commercials and encode it to divx. I know I can use mencoder's -ss and
> >-endpos to split the final AVI into several files and get rid of the
> >commercial, but I don't know how to merge the pre- and post-commercial
> >sections back into one AVI. I tried the recommended trick of using cat
> >*.avi | mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o merged.avi -forceidx, but it
> >didn't work -- there's a noticable A/V desync after the part where the
> >second file begins. I also tried using transcode's avimerge, but with it
> >the desync is even worse. Does anyone know of a utility that allows one
> >to merge AVI files, or even better, to manipulate (dissect and merge)
> >MPEG2 files?  Linux would be preferred, but Windows will also do if it
> >can't be done under Linux.
> >
> For cutting AVIs, VirtualDub or Nandub run under wine is imho the best 
> tool currently available.

or avidemux in linux.

gabor