OT: Rejoining video files

[david walcroft]

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