[MPlayer-users] Stitched video file has no audio and no timecode

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 09 October 2008 at 20:32, Anthony Castillon wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Dominik.

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> I actually stumbled into mencoder while looking for a solution to concatenate
> multiple wmv files into a single wmv file. 
>  
> I simplified my command to remove the -lavcopts argument:
> mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o <output file path> <list of files to merge>
>  
> However, I'm still not getting any audio in the merged output.

As I said, it's possible that MEncoder doesn't handle merging ASF files well,
but without seeing the output of the above command (with -v added), it's hard
to say what's going on.

> I read about ffmpeg too.  However, I read somewhere that you have to encode
> the input files to mpg and concatenate them, then reencode the concatenated
> file to wmv.  Is this true?  

Of course not.

Regards,
R.

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