[MPlayer-users] joining two VCDs

[Ian Molton]

Hi.

I've tried to join two VCDs together using cat and mencoder.

first I did:

mencoder vcd:// -oac copy -ovc copy -o part1.avi
<change disc>
mencoder vcd:// -oac copy -ovc copy -o part2.avi

cat part1.avi part2.avi > temp.avi

mencoder -idx temp.avi -o video.avi

this works but I cant properly seek in the resulting file - I can seek fine up to about 70% through (the file is 1.6GB btw) and then no further, although the file will play through to the end.

I discovered that using -forceidx on mplayer allwoed proper seeking, however I cant create a movie that works without -forceidx. I tried this:

mencoder -forceidx video.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -o fixed_video.avi

but no such luck

mplayer -forceidx video.avi works fine.