OT: Rejoining video files
david walcroft
david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au
Tue Oct 26 22:59:06 UTC 2004
Robin Laing wrote:
> david walcroft wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Can someone tell me how to rejoin .mpeg/.avi/.mov/.wmv type files,
>> I have some from a local binaries usenet and to post they split them
>> up some are 6 sections and have an .eml added,the majority use M$ to OP.
>> I'm using fc2 and mplayer but know nothing of video.
>>
>> Thanks david
>>
>
> Let me understand clearly.
>
> You are downloading a multipart binary from Usenet. You get something
> like yyy.avi.001 yyy.avi.002 yyy.avi.003 in your saved directory,
> correct? (I was going to use xxx but I thought that was suggesting
> something.) ;)
>
> Now if this is correct, then all you have to do is cat them together. I
> have done this for years. Now to compound things, I have found that if
> and .avi file is missing a segment, and it of some certain formats, it
> won't play past the missing segment. I have run across the same problem
> with .wmv files. I wrote a simple script but it won't work with files
> that have spaces in their names.
>
> Now if you look at the instructions for mencoder, there is a method that
> will join avi segments and process the index. It works sometimes. I
> did have a command that would repair avi's and process avi segments
> using mencoder but I lost it during the xmas cleanup. I shouldn't have
> relied on a sticky note to stay around.
>
> Also if you have a problem with a file, using mplayer -idx filename
> sometimes helps as well.
>
> Mplayer is a nice tool but I found that avifile that was on RH 6 was
> great as it would play almost any segment of a file which I cannot get
> mplayer to do. It could have something to do with the codec of the avi.
>
> Look at the mplayer/mencoder documentation.
Thanks everybody,
I think it will take a couple of days to work through all the info
so I'll post any results (if I get any )
david
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