[mythtv-users] mkvmerge usage

[scram69]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Alex Tomlins <alex at tomlins.org.uk> wrote:
> On 18/08/11 06:13, scram69 wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Kevin Ross<kevin at familyross.net>  wrote:
>>> On 08/16/2011 09:20 PM, scram69 wrote:
>>>> Forgive me if this has been previously addressed, but I searched the
>>>> list and wiki and couldn't find it...
>>>>
>>>>>  From the mkvmerge man page, I get the impression that a command like:
>>>> mkvmerge -o fullmovie.mkv part1.mkv part2.mkv
>>>> should make a single .mkv file called fullmovie.mkv that concatenates
>>>> part1 and part2.
>>>>
>>>> The resulting file seems to be the right size and time duration.
>>>> However when I attempt to play the result with the internal player, it
>>>> gets to the point in fullmovie.mkv where file1 ends, and the player
>>>> exits.  Attempting to skip forward from near the end of file1 into the
>>>> beginning of file two also causes the player to exit.
>>>>
>>>> Are there particular flags I need to set with the command in order to
>>>> get mkvmerge to do what I want?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks-
>>>> Steve
>>> I think what you want is:
>>>
>>> mkvmerge -o fullmovie.mkv part1.mkv + part2.mkvra
>>>
>>> Hope this helps!
>>> -- Kevin
>>>
>> OK - I think I now understand the difference between "appending" and
>> "adding" - thanks!
>> However, I'm now getting errors about track parameters not matching,
>> even though for each file track 1 is MPEG-4 part 10, and track 2 is
>> AAC audio...
>>
>> Guess I'll have to do a bit more googling...
> Are both source files exactly the same resolution?  The need to be for
> append to work.  I've hit this before when using Handbreak with the
> auto-crop option, and ending up with files that were different
> resolutions by something like 2 pixels.  I had to re-rip one of the
> files setting the resolution manually.
>
> Alex
>
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Hi Alex,
<Just getting back to this project after a long weekend of other
projects...>  Yes, that is correct; not only do they need to be the
same resolution, but the same bitrate as well.  Certainly limits the
usefulness of the tool - however, I'm not familiar with matroska, so I
don't know what's involved.
I have a larger number of these disparate mkv's - I will probably just
put them in the same folder under /videos and see if I can't use the
"play next" flag with the internal player...