HOWTO: easily join separate mpeg files into one file.

[timczer]

If you have transcode installed you can use avimerge to merge multiple avi files together: avimerge -o big.avi -i file1.avi file2.avi file3.avi

As for converting the avi to vcd, avidemux is a good program for this. It will allow you to convert the file, and choose the bit rate in order to ensure that the outputed file will fit on a cd or dvd (whichever you choose). I used this tutorial: http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=242455 to convert some avi movies into dvd format. There is an option in the conversion dialog to convert to vcd.

[cvmostert]

thank you! i will try it out... and.. merry christmas!

[raggamuffin]

you can also use mpgtx (install it via APT)...

then just " mpgtx -j file01.mpg file02.mpg -o output_name.mpg " ...

[Pete051]

I've just tried this on realmedia files on dapper, it doubles the file size but dosen't join the files simply over writes one why the file size increase I don't know. anybody any ideas on how to handles realmedia files?
Thanks

[DirtDart]

It will also work on ANY AVI files so long as you have mplayer installed. After joining some arbritrary group of AVI files via "cat," tell mplayer to rebuild the index

mencoder -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy infile.avi -o outfile.avi

Sweet...this will come in handy; thanks for the info.

[DonVla]

or easier:

mencoder -oav copy -ovc copy -o output.avi 1.avi 2.avi

[nmyrick]

Thank you very much! I was looking for that since I installed Ubuntu 1 month ago.

cat Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.001 Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.002 Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.003 Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.004 Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.005 Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.006 Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.007 Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.008 Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.009 Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.010 Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.011 Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.012 Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg.013 > Madonna\ -\ Hung\ up\ (live\ at\ EMA).mpg
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Where is the syntax error, please?

You need to change directory into the \Madonna file by entering 'cd Madonna' in the terminal. Then you don't have to put the directory in for every file. That's probably your syntax error.

[GrouchyGaijin]

I am trying to join multiple mpg files using

cat MpegA.MPG MpegB.MPG > MpegAB.MPG

but the resulting file only shows the data from MpegA, and nothing from MpegB.

Any ideas?

Thank you, this would be cool if I could get it to work.

[nmyrick]

I have the same issue. It only shows the data from the first mpeg file. Haven't found a way to fix that issue yet without considerably degrading the audio quality.

[Portaro]

IM not sure but maybe with lxsplit you can do this joining try-

lxsplit -j /path to first file

(atention all files parts of this mpeg files needs are in same directory.)