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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 2:13 pm    Post subject: Combining two avi files Reply with quote

Hey, I have two Xvid avi files. I'm sure that there is some way to combine them using some nifty command line tool, but I just don't know what it's called. Can anyone help?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, if you want something fancy, I cant help you, but if you just wan't to see them one after the other I'm pretty sure that
Code:
cat file1 file2 > bigfile
would do somethig useable, you will lose all the metadata of course
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

avicat (it's a part of media-video/avifile)
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually there is a nice program called avimerge which comes with I have no idea what ( probably mplayer though ). Works really great :)
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

avimerge works great
thought it was a part of transcode

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I combined the 2 files, but when I play it, xine stops after the first one. What can i do?

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it's all about OGM, imho

ogmtools has a tool called ogmmerge (and ogmsplit...), and I've never had these tools fail on me

i regularly back up my DVDs (damn roommates scratchin' them!) the minute I get them, and some movies I want in high quality, which ends up being about 2 CDs worth, so I split and merge refrequently

OGM is just a wrapper, and not a new "codec" or anything, so it can import most evertyhing...read the man pages, they have lots of examples

btw, if you want to backup DVDs, and gui tools aren't cutting it, a mixture of transcode and ogmtools (and gOCR and aspell for subtitles) is all ya need...
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Something like this maybe:
cat 1.avi 2.avi | mencoder -noidx -ovc copy -oac copy -o 3.avi -
In case these were splitted, i.e same codec, resolution, fps.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:42 pm    Post subject: splicing on keyframes Reply with quote

I know avidemux can splice avi files perfectly.

It's a gui but you need to read the manual at
least as far as being able to set the cut points
on keyframes - then there's no problem and
all the pieces will play in the combined file.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 1:07 pm    Post subject: Re: splicing on keyframes Reply with quote

Thank you all, avidemux is the solution to my question. Now i can play my avi files with xine. Infact with the suggestion of 4nykey i can open the combined file without problem only with mplayer. ;-)
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, I was just going to post a related question, I suppose this thread is the place for it.

I have two .avi files and corresponding .srt subtitle files.

What I'd like to do is merge the avi files so that the subtitles are now part of the video and not separate files.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Generally I prefer the gui, so if you can start from a dvd I suggest dvd::rip which is a graphical frontend for transcode.

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

botta wrote:
Generally I prefer the gui, so if you can start from a dvd I suggest dvd::rip which is a graphical frontend for transcode.

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/


its too bad that dvdrip wants a bunch of gnome dependants.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use acidrip, but there's also drip, and something else (I think it has qt in the package name)

Don't know about their dependencies, but it's worth a look
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

evoweiss wrote:
Ah, I was just going to post a related question, I suppose this thread is the place for it.

I have two .avi files and corresponding .srt subtitle files.

What I'd like to do is merge the avi files so that the subtitles are now part of the video and not separate files.

Any suggestions on how to do this?


For putting the subtitles into the avi you have to re-encode the avi, so I hope you are aware that you're going to lose quality...

Anyway, the process is first to put the subtitle in for each avi and then you can join them. In this thread there are already a couple of hints on how to join two avi's (I prefer the mencoder way) so I just give a hint how to put a srt file in an avi file (probably more solutions here aswell and I prefer mencoder again)

So to encode a srt file into an avi:
Code:

mencoder -oac lavc -ovc mp3lame -sub MyCuteSubtitleFile.srt MyCuteMovieFile.avi -o NewMovieFile.avi

Of course since you have to re-encode the avi you might want to play with the -lavcopts and/or choose different codecs. Likewise for audio.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, same question... but MPEG files?
I grabbed a bunch of movies that were saved into 8-21 files... I'd like to combine them all into one big MPEG. So far the only program I have that plays them is VLC, Kaboodle gets a bunch of green garbage in the video.

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