From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RhQbX-0003m6-0q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:57:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2C2D21C0FA; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 18:57:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A0721C027 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 18:56:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhq2 with SMTP id hq2so9400900wib.40 for ; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:56:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=TtMZ6s03R0Q1c8sBmhx/iWDiZPg28Coe5Uy+VUM+VKc=; b=a7tobFca7Yf5P+7pCLO8eeaJbTsLjxDvtdbyPDul5LkWqPsM5GWVQa2PHEKP1SWep6 kVnQ+xgn7s2qm9eTbY4n08JhBSmYt6sep8e//SDPubWgqTCam1s8TANUu/UXAWrrj7z9 cJSNJwuhJVpUDEI7n6dcY3r3awSwcZUW1IwrA= Received: by 10.180.19.74 with SMTP id c10mr100713351wie.8.1325444186260; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:56:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ga4sm31950990wbb.4.2012.01.01.10.56.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:56:24 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video editing advice on formats and size of file Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 18:56:06 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.7.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4EF48DA6.1080203@gmail.com> <4EF5311F.9010901@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EF5311F.9010901@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1824607.NH2qrbERfx"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201201011856.27120.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 74acb2dc-4496-4788-bc7b-5a390e024f64 X-Archives-Hash: dcb39e28ab57471213552a4c5ce10695 --nextPart1824607.NH2qrbERfx Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 24 Dec 2011 01:55:43 Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2011-12-23, Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >>=20 > >> 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. > >=20 > > This always works for me with avi and mpeg files: > > mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -quiet infile1.avi infile2.avi -o > > outfile.avi >=20 > 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. >=20 > Things women make us guys do. lol Hmm ... more likely she decided to keep you busy (quiet) and prove to herse= lf=20 that you care enough to do things for her? No doubt you let slip that you= =20 like playing with computers ... ;-) Anyhow, have a look again at the mencoder man page. There's a few settings= in=20 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 "c= opy"=20 option whereby it just copies the source with zero processing on video or=20 audio inputs. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1824607.NH2qrbERfx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk8ArFoACgkQVTDTR3kpaLa2sACgoRmWptBkx7S6R5QLbgPTlMus s4YAoK9X4hyEcradUk1uLhYGxHBaLSXG =SlDP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1824607.NH2qrbERfx--