(Linux) Merge multiple AVI or MPG's?

[imported_LoKe]

I've got about, 10+ avi's that I'd like to merge before converting to MPG. Is there a relatively easy way to do this?

 

[Mloot]

I didn't find it real easy doing it myself, but you can use a freeware program called VirtualDub to do this. I've used it a few times to take a single TV show recorded from my TV card to break it up after ripping out all the commercials, and then rejoining them back up to make a shorter, commercial-free program.

 

[imported_LoKe]

I've heard of VirtualDub running under WINE, so I'll give that a shot.

Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[Mloot]

I found this page somewhat hard to follow (at least for me, Virtualdub had something of a learning curve), but here is a link that gives you instructions on using some of Virtualdub's many functions.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

I think you could use Lives for that.

edit: Or maybe Cinerella

 

[jfall]

You may all ready have avimerge -- check and see. If so, you'd just do this:

avimerge -o OUTPUT.avi -i INPUT_1.avi INPUT_2.avi

 

[Nothinman]

And you had better hope that they're all the same codecs, bitrates, etc if you want the resulting AVIs to be anything close to usable.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
And you had better hope that they're all the same codecs, bitrates, etc if you want the resulting AVIs to be anything close to usable.

They certainly are. =]

JFall, I'll try that. Thanks.