OT: Rejoining video files

[Scott Talbot]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 07:27 -0400, Filippos Klironomos wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:23:56 +1000, david walcroft
> <david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au> 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.
> >
> 
> This might not work since I don't know the internal .mpeg or .avi or
> whatever format but why don't you try:
> 
> cat $mpeg1 $mpeg2 > $megaMPEG
> 
> and see what happens?


	This works fine for mpeg files but not avi (though given that AVI is
more a wrapper than a codec, I might be wrong there.  Any way I used
this often for mpg and has always worked.  Only used once for .avi with
no result, never tried .mov etc.

Scott