[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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