How to merge several .mpg files??

joseph brand

Don't know where the software forum is so I will post this here.

I have a folder on my pc that contains 9 files altogether making the same 22min episode of Friends.

I downloaded Womble MPEG2VCR v3.14 to do this and have not used it yet(will soon).

Has anyone used this tool and if not what would/do, you use??


Cheers for any help.

marco murphy

Windows movie maker?

The_B_Man

VirtualDub?

tman

make a folder at the root of the c: drive called "friends"

open a dos prompt (start/run/cmd)
type cd\friends
then type "copy file1.mpg+file2.mpg+file3.mpg output.mpg"
with filex.mpg being the files you've downloaded, and output.mpg being the name of the new file that you want to merge them into.
does the same thing as most of these "video joiner" apps

Capt'n Midnight

tman wrote:

then type "copy /B file1.mpg+file2.mpg+file3.mpg output.mpg"

couldn't be that easy could it ?
( added /B )

Same trick can be used to make one Zip file when you have it spread over several disks , and also works with DOS 5 backup (without compression) to put one file on to several disks and then off again - in the old days before USB keys etc.

tman

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

couldn't be that easy could it ?
( added /B )

Same trick can be used to make one Zip file when you have it spread over several disks , and also works with DOS 5 backup (without compression) to put one file on to several disks and then off again - in the old days before USB keys etc.

d'oh :rolleyes:

you could also stick the files into a zip file with zero compression... does pretty much the same thing as my last suggestion

Syth

One can do a similiar thing in Linux (cat file1.mpg file2.mg file3.mpg > total.mpg). It works. However it's not a proper movie file. Oh it'll play fine, but some video edditing apps will complain if you try to edit this stiched up film. There's something on the mplayer man page about fixing that, but it doesn't matter as it should play fine.

dregin

In DOS "type" is pretty much the same as "cat" in Linux. Go to the directory containing the files and type "type * > filename.extension".....the files will be stuck together in alphabetical order.

vishal

this is a different question but if i wanted to split say a 100mb file into 2 pieces could thiis be done dos?

dregin

I think there is a console version of winrar.

www.rarlabs.com

joseph brand

Tried it with this womble thingy and it works with normal mpg files but not with .ogm files, . . . .BRILLIANT!!!

Could not actually be happier.

Gonna try VirtualDub. Why do people break the One 22 min file into 9 WinRar files only for me to have to UnRar them and then get out the sticky back plastic and stick it all back together again.??

Also, how the hell can there be these 9 Rar files in one folder all with same file name??

Cheers.

Wigertoods

vishal wrote:

this is a different question but if i wanted to split say a 100mb file into 2 pieces could thiis be done dos?

Don't know about DOS but a handy little prog caled HJ Split
will split any file into any amount of parts.

pickarooney

If you have a load of winrar files, you jsut need to open the .r00 file with winrar and combine them all into one.

Capt'n Midnight

dregin wrote:

In DOS "type" is pretty much the same as "cat" in Linux. Go to the directory containing the files and type "type * > filename.extension".....the files will be stuck together in alphabetical order.

IIRC this bombs out on ASCII 0 (Null) or 26 (^Z)
For the same reasons you have to use /B on copy.

Copy /B file*.mpg output.mpg
can give different results in differrent versions of Dos/command console - sometimes works though..
and copy file1.ext *.* trashes the file (0 bytes) in the original version of windows 95 and don't get me started on the MANY variations in xcopy syntax across the versions.