MEncoder now supports multiple files.

patch by Oded Shimon <ods15 at ods15 dot dyndns dot org>


git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@14976 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml
index 2d2280573d..1504eb9b13 100644
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml
@@ -1314,20 +1314,18 @@ and even burn them directly to CD.
 How can I join two video files?
 </para></question>
 <answer><para>
-This has been discussed to no end on mplayer-users. Go search the
-<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/s-arch.cgi?sbm=mplayer-users">archives</ulink>
-for a complete answer. This is a complicated topic and your mileage may vary a
-lot depending on the kind of files you want to merge. MPEGs can be concatenated
-into a single file with luck. For AVIs there are two tools,
-<ulink url="http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/">avidemux</ulink> and
-<application>avimerge</application> (part of the
-<ulink url="http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/">transcode</ulink>
-tool set), available that might do the job. You can also try <application>MEncoder</application>
-if you have two files sharing the same dimensions and codec. Try
+MPEG files can be concatenated into a single file with luck.
+For AVI files, you can use <application>MEncoder</application>'s
+multiple file support like this:
 <screen>
-     cat file1 file2 > file3
-     mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o out.avi -forceidx file3.avi
+mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o out.avi file1.avi file2.avi
 </screen>
+This will only work if the files are of the same resolution and codec.
+You can also try
+<ulink url="http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/">avidemux</ulink> and
+<application>avimerge</application> (part of the
+<ulink url="http://www.transcoding.org/">transcode</ulink>
+tool set).
 </para></answer>
 </qandaentry>