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

[Jason Donahue]

Not really, since wmv is a compressed "lossy" format anyway.

Converting to raw avi is just a way to get it to a workable format. This
format took a 32M file and turned it into 1.5G - definitely not a
"usable" size. after recompressing to xvid I noticed no difference in
quality from the original wmv files.

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 06:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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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