[MPlayer-users] Re: combining multiple avi's (Adam Nielsen)

[Elmo]

Awesome!  Thanks, that seems to work perfectly!

-Brian

> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:23:27 +1000
> From: Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at optushome.com.au>
> To: "MPlayer user's list." <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] combining multiple avi's
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> > cat 1.avi 2.avi | mencoder -noidx -ovc copy -oac copy -o output.avi -
> 
> That seems to be a very unreliable way of combining two AVIs - mencoder would 
> have to realise there's a second AVI header in there and ignore it, without 
> skipping frames, figure out the audio delays, etc, etc.  I'm not at all 
> surprised it's not working for you ;-)
> 
> If you want to merge two AVIs (that use the same codec/resolution/etc.) I'd 
> strongly recommend you use something designed for that, like "avimerge" from 
> the transcode package.  I've been using it flawlessly for a few years now.
> 
> Cheers,
> Adam.