Combining two avi files

SlashGentoo · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 2:13 pm Post subject: Combining two avi files

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?

krusty_ar · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 2:25 pm Post subject:

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

Coogee · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 184 Location: E.U.

avicat (it's a part of media-video/avifile)

SlashGentoo · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject:

Actually there is a nice program called avimerge which comes with I have no idea what ( probably mplayer though ). Works really great

_hesoez_ · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject:

avimerge works great
thought it was a part of transcode

grtz

botta · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject:

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

fafhrd · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:44 pm Post subject:

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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4nykey · Apprentice Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 176

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.

baz0 · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 6

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.

hth

botta · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 1:07 pm Post subject: Re: splicing on keyframes

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. ;-)

evoweiss · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:05 pm Post subject:

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?

Best,

Alex

botta · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 12:28 pm Post subject:

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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djm · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:55 pm Post subject:

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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SZwarts · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:57 am Post subject:

ReeferMac · Guru Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 389

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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