[mythtv-users] mkvmerge usage

[scram69]

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...