Tip: Join two avi file with mencoder

[tdreyer1]

mencoder -forceidx -ovc copy -oac copy -o file.avi p1.avi p2.avi ...

Awesome! That worked great!

[deadtom]

Worked great for me too. Thanks for the info!

[Lylex11]

Thanks neilp85! works a treat and real quick. Saves encoding all the files again!

[HarshReality]

I'd love it if there was a right click option to just run this (mencoder script).. would save alot of typing.

[yunone]

i just found it, and it works great for me. i guess my only suggestion to ppl reading this would be to type in 'cd ~/Desktop' into terminal (if thats where your files are at), no ' symbols, just the stuff between. type that before you do the mencoder command line

thank you very much for the simple tip about the file location...worked perfectly....Great little tip !

[kvarley]

There's no reason to cat the two files together before encoding because mencoder can handle that as well.

mencoder -forceidx -ovc copy -oac copy -o file.avi p1.avi p2.avi ...

Thank you so much! Nice bit of code which has been much use to me.

[mister_playboy]

There's no reason to cat the two files together before encoding because mencoder can handle that as well.

mencoder -forceidx -ovc copy -oac copy -o file.avi p1.avi p2.avi ...

Just what I was looking for... thank you.

[vedavrata]

mencoder can handle that as well.

mencoder -forceidx -ovc copy -oac copy -o file.avi p1.avi p2.avi ...

Thank you!
It works! [and much better than by ffmpeg! ]

[andrew.46]

It works! [and much better than by ffmpeg! ]

Good to see that you have achieved the desired outcome but have a look at a modern copy of FFmpeg and you might find that there have been some considerable improvements in video concatenation just recently.