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MEncoder now supports multiple files. patch by Oded Shimon <ods15 at ods15 dot dyndns dot org>

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<qandaentry>
<question><para>
How can I join two video files?
</para></question>
<answer><para>
This has been discussed to no end on mplayer-users. Go search the
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/s-arch.cgi?sbm=mplayer-users">archives</ulink>
for a complete answer. This is a complicated topic and your mileage may vary a
lot depending on the kind of files you want to merge. MPEGs can be concatenated
into a single file with luck. For AVIs there are two tools,
<ulink url="http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/">avidemux</ulink> and
<application>avimerge</application> (part of the
<ulink url="http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/">transcode</ulink>
tool set), available that might do the job. You can also try <application>MEncoder</application>
if you have two files sharing the same dimensions and codec. Try
<screen>
     cat file1 file2 > file3
     mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o out.avi -forceidx file3.avi
</screen>
</para></answer>
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<question><para>

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<qandaentry>
<question><para>
How can I join two video files?
</para></question>
<answer><para>
MPEG files can be concatenated into a single file with luck.
For AVI files, you can use <application>MEncoder</application>'s
multiple file support like this:
<screen>
mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o out.avi file1.avi file2.avi
</screen>
This will only work if the files are of the same resolution and codec.
You can also try
<ulink url="http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/">avidemux</ulink> and
<application>avimerge</application> (part of the
<ulink url="http://www.transcoding.org/">transcode</ulink>
tool set).
</para></answer>
</qandaentry>

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