Join 2 asf files

[nelson777]

Hello,

I got 2 videos in ASF format. One has 122,6Mb and the other 29,1Mb. I'm trying to join them in a single file. Yet, when I try to do this using ffmpeg or mencoder the resultant size is FAR greater than the original file.
I tried like this:
mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -idx -o output.avi video1.avi video2.avi video3.avi
like this:
mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o output.avi video1.avi video2.avi video3.avi
like this:
ffmpeg -i ./video1.asf -i ./video2.asf -vcodec copy -acodec copy ./video.asf
I tried with cat as in:
http://ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC27
tried to join both with cat vid1.asf vid2.asf > vid.asf and then convert with ffmpeg to .mpg.
No deal. I can create the joined video but the least I get is 300Mb.

Somebody knows how I can do this keeping the original size ? i.e. the resultant file should have aprox. 151,7Mb.

Thnx
-Nelson

[andrew.46]

I tried with cat as in:
http://ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC27
tried to join both with cat vid1.asf vid2.asf > vid.asf and then convert with ffmpeg to .mpg.
No deal.

Perhaps you have made a typo, the technique is to convert both files to mpg first, then cat them together and then finally to convert the concatenated file to the format and container of your choice.