I've been tidying up some video's that were taken on my camera and wanted to merge the short snippets of video so I could convert them to DVD for easy family viewing.
A quick google turned up the relevant details:
Ensure you have mplayer & mencoder installed
sudo apt-get install mencoder mplayer
Merge the files together
cat video1.avi video2.avi video3.avi > merged.avi
Reindex the audio and video
mencoder -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy merged.avi -o merged_final.avi
All done - if you want to convert it to a DVD check out HOWTO Create DVD's from AVI's on Ubuntu.
Thanks to the good folk at ArsGeek for the tip.
2 Comments
cat video[0-9].avi > merged.avi
is better and faster
if you are more ten video you can try :
cat video[0-9][0-9].avi > merged.avi
thanks for the Reindex the audio and video tips
Misterniark
I'm not even sure if you need to use cat at all....
mencoder -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy video01.avi video02.avi video03.avi -o merged_final.avi
should work....