Merging mpg Files

[42Wired]

Does anyone know of a good program to join a series of mpg files end to end? Either that, or is there a setting in k9copy I'm missing that would do it for me (ripping from a DVD)?

[sandyd]

Does anyone know of a good program to join a series of mpg files end to end? Either that, or is there a setting in k9copy I'm missing that would do it for me (ripping from a DVD)?

avidemux

[NightwishFan]

If you like command line ffmpeg might help you.

[42Wired]

avidemux seems to make the audio choppy and out of sync, and doesn't like to append all of them when it asks me. I'll try manually appending them sometime when I have two hours to watch the movie to make sure they're in the correct order.

I didn't find any commands to join mpg files on the man page for ffmpeg. Is there something I'm missing?

[FakeOutdoorsman]

You can try using cat. The mpg format is usually cat friendly:

cat video1.mpg video2.mpg video3.mpg > joined.mpg

If it doesn't play back very well you can use FFmpeg to place the video and audio into a new container:

ffmpeg -i all.mpg -acodec copy -vcodec copy joineded.mpg

Neither of these commands will re-encode your video and audio and therefore will preserve the quality.

[42Wired]

You can try using cat. The mpg format is usually cat friendly:

cat video1.mpg video2.mpg video3.mpg > joined.mpg

If it doesn't play back very well you can use FFmpeg to place the video and audio into a new container:

ffmpeg -i all.mpg -acodec copy -vcodec copy joineded.mpg

Neither of these commands will re-encode your video and audio and therefore will preserve the quality.

cat is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!