[MEncoder-users] 2 movies side by side

[Reuben Budiardja]

On Wednesday 30 January 2008 8:29:21 am Cristian Baltatescu wrote:
> Hi.
>
> My question is this: can you stick two movies side by side, not one after
> the other? <skip>

Hello,
I don't know if ffmpeg / mencoder can do it withouth doing your alternate 
solution below.

> If not, i'm thinking of an alternative solution. I could, i guess make
> png-s of the two movies, one for each frame, somehow stick them togheter,
> resulting in a wider png and then making a movie out of those final png's.

If you decide to do it this way, ImageMagick can combine the JPEGs or PNGs. 
Take a look at the section "Parenthesis -- processing images 'on-the-side'" 
on: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/. The option you need 
is -append/+append. 
I do this regularly for data visualization, and then just make movies from the 
resulting wide JPEGs / PNG using mencoder. 

RDB
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