[MPlayer-users] merging - fault

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 02:39:19AM +0100, Wieslaw Kierbedz wrote:
> I've just tried stndard operation.
> cat 1.avi 2.avi | mencoder -noidx...
> And I've got - No input file given.
> Should I dig in my linux system or something in mencoder changed?

No, you should do two things:

1. cat the two files together into one _file_ before running mencoder.
   Don't send them in via stdin!

2. If you want to read from stdin, you need to specify it (-) as the
   input filename. mencoder with no filename given obviously won't
   work.

Rich