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authordiego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2005-03-21 01:12:45 +0000
committerdiego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2005-03-21 01:12:45 +0000
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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
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-rw-r--r--DOCS/man/en/mplayer.111
-rw-r--r--DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml22
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index 77aa35b2ac..30edf78cc3 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -156,14 +156,25 @@ mencoder \- movie encoder
.br
.in
.B gmplayer
+'in +\n[.k]u
[options]
[\-skin\ skin]
.
.br
+.in
.B mencoder
+'in +\n[.k]u
[options]
.RI [ \ file\ | \ URL\ | \ \-\ ]
[\-o\ file]
+.
+.br
+.in
+.B mencoder
+'in +\n[.k]u
+[global options]
+.I file1
+[specific options] [file2] [specific options]
.ad
.hy
.
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>