[mythtv-users] OT - Linux utility to merge wmv files ? (SOLVED)

Ron Johnson ron.l.johnson at cox.net
Tue Mar 15 12:37:03 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 02:15 -0500, Jason Donahue wrote:
> For anyone who is interested, here is how I merged a bunch of wmv files
> into one movie:
> 
> First use mencoder to convert files to raw avi:
> 
> mencoder clip1.wmv -oac pcm -ovc raw -o tmp1.avi
> mencoder clip2.wmv -oac pcm -ovc raw -o tmp2.avi
> ...
> ...
> ...
> 
> Then use avimerge to combine all the files:
> 
> avimerge -o "bigfile.avi" -i tmp1.avi tmp2.avi ... ...
> 
> Finally, use mencoder again to shrink the file down (I chose xvid):

Wouldn't you lose some quality this way?

> mencoder bigfile.avi -o final.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts
> bitrate=16000
> 
> Hope this helps some other poor souls...
> 
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:14 -0500, Jason Donahue wrote:
> > I have several wmv files in the form of clip1/wmv clip2.wmv, etc. I want
> > to merge them into one big file using linux only (I have no windows
> > box).
> > 
> > Can this be done with transcode? If not, what other *nix utility would
> > get the job done ?

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