Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video editing advice on formats and size of file

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 24 Dec 2011 01:55:43 Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2011-12-23, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> Howdy,
> >> 
> >> I been trying to get this to work right for a goooooood while now.  I'm
> >> confused here.  I have some videos that I download that are split up.
> >> Some have two or three parts and a few 4 or 5.  What I can't get is
> >> this, I can't seem to take say two 250Mb videos and make it come
> >> anywhere near 500Mbs when spliced together.
> > 
> > This always works for me with avi and mpeg files:
> >   mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -quiet infile1.avi infile2.avi -o
> >   outfile.avi
> 
> I tried this but it made my video pixelated for some reason.  The one I
> tested was a .flv so that may have a LOT to do with it.  Maybe it needed
> different options.  I tried the man page but it looked like Greek to
> me.  I mostly watch videos but no idea on how to make them or even do
> much editing, tho I am sort of learning.  My lady friend likes to watch
> videos so I have to put them together and burn them to a DVD.
> 
> Things women make us guys do.  lol

Hmm ... more likely she decided to keep you busy (quiet) and prove to herself 
that you care enough to do things for her?  No doubt you let slip that you 
like playing with computers ...   ;-)

Anyhow, have a look again at the mencoder man page.  There's a few settings in 
there for video called "extreme" and "insane".  You may want to try them.

Alternatively you may find that ffmpeg will do what you want.  There's a "copy" 
option whereby it just copies the source with zero processing on video or 
audio inputs.

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Regards,
Mick

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