[MPlayer-users] Concatenation of two AVI files

[Georg Prager]

> >> > > but the resulting test.avi only contains the first AVI, not the
> >> > > second one.
> >> > >
> >> > > Is it possible to do this with mencoder? If yes, how can I do it?
> >> >
> >> > cat file1.avi file2.avi > file.avi
> >> > mencoder ..... -forceidx file.avi
> >>
> >> I have tried this and had it break horrible. But try as you will.
> >
> > I had never problems with this solution. All files were created
> > successully.
>
> May be the files needs different codecs?

I've never tried it, but I think it won't work! I used the example to reduce a 
2CD-movie so that the created avifile will fit on 1CD. Of course, this works 
perfectly, but I've never tried it with files which have had different 
codecs, but I think it won't work! 

Georg