[MPlayer-users] 2 titles in 1 film

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:26:21PM -0500, Kichigai Mentat wrote:
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> On Aug 18, 2005, at 19.53, Yura wrote:
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> >Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:00:28AM -0500, Kichigai Mentat ??????????????:
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> >>On Aug 15, 2005, at 22.27, ?????? wrote:
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> >>>Good time to all .
> >>>I wonder , how to rip 2 titles in  1 film ?
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> >>I assume you mean how to rip two DVD titles into one file. I  
> >>suppose  the easiest way to do that would be to use the avimerge  
> >>program from  the avifile collection.
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> >Thanks , how i couldn't guess ? And bitrate of target size   
> >calculate from
> >the common length , i suppose .
> >Thanks one more .
> I'm guessing you're not sure how to go about doing this? First, you  
> would have MEncoder encode each title into a single file, using the  
> same video codec, resolution, and bitrate. Then download and install  
> avifile, and use the avimerge program. The man page should tell you  
> everything.

This is not a good method, since the twopass vbr won't get distributed
across the two halves. MEncoder is perfectly capable of encoding from
two source files. Just use:

mencoder [all options here] dvd://1 dvd://2

Rich