[MPlayer-users] concatenate mpegs

[Michel Bardiaux]

pepo wrote:

> Hi friends...
> 
>   How do I concatenate mpegs files, I try with "cat files*.mpeg >
> result.mpeg" but this give me breakpoints and I wanna just one big file
> without breakpoints, other problem was the sound because I lost the
> little spaces without sound, and the result is an audio that didn't
> match with the video
> 
> thanks
> 
Concatenation will only work *well* under 2 conditions:

(1) The source MPEGs do not have end codes in the video stream nor the 
system stream. Currently, lavc does not output end codes in mpeg1video, 
but I dont know which muxer mencoder uses for the system stream so I 
dont know what it does. Besides you didnt tell how your MPEGs were 
generated.

(2) The timestamps form a coherent sequence. Here again, that depends on 
how the MPEGs have been generated. We have here our own encoder 
application, which uses lavc for audio, video and lavf for muxing; and 
we use 'real' timestamps from the system clock. Thus we can concatenate 
MPEGs.

For a general solution, use mpgtx.

HaND,
-- 
Michel Bardiaux
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