[MPlayer-users] Joining avi and mpg files

[Sergei Golubchik]

Hi!

On Oct 20, Anssi Saari wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:56:16PM -0700, Rinaldi Montessi wrote:
> > Posting multipart mpg and avi files seems to be the
> > norm.  Using cat I have no problem (it appears)
> > joining mutlipart mpg files, avi files, however,
> > although they appear by looking at the file size to be
> > cat'd quit at the end of the first segment.  Is there
> > a special way to handle these files so they will
> > combine correctly?
> 
> Transcode includes a tool called avimerge. I haven't tried it, though.

I did.
Well, it a nice and very simple tool.
The only problem is that it's based on avilib which I'd call avicrap.
That is, it takes perfect AVIs and transforms them into a crap that even
mplayer cannot play! (as for windows tools - forget it).
It rounds audio rate in bizarre way. It sets flags in the header to
arbitrary - and compiled in - values. After few hours hacking (thanks to
mplayer -v that shows more info about AVI that avilib ever cares about)
I've managed to merge some AVIs into something mplayer-playable.
Still, (after burning a CD) I found that Windows Media Player GPFs on
them. So - I'm using VirtualDub now (until mplayer -odivx will be
able to save sound as well).

Regards,
Sergei