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 1ReGu2-0001du-8B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:00:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D15A221C121; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:59:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9237221C0FA for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:57:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenm3 with SMTP id m3so6676521yen.40 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:57:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tb6rdO9/4j//LLempntIjaXl447/CeegC9w6rZKsk7E=; b=X7ZB2CsGR4e7rz77vBIVkgz03qaVvWN/QlJxDYV/daZ6JBqeZvSuv+KQJShxRGeNCA UQ+v4YwsDhrQN8Pda9bTMDFuV1hjlKg7b0kY01rrSkkzRXxL3cVHyqH0gojgsulPZGqy 6N3yrId6QXaK5WivBaIRot3P0Pq995ONPTgIE= Received: by 10.236.129.202 with SMTP id h50mr24889474yhi.1.1324691876097; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:57:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-122-130.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.122.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s23sm30519411anh.11.2011.12.23.17.57.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:57:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EF531A1.9050202@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:57:53 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Video editing advice on formats and size of file References: <4EF48DA6.1080203@gmail.com> <20111223162955.GA16196@grusum.endjinn.de> In-Reply-To: <20111223162955.GA16196@grusum.endjinn.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d6dfce28-8d51-431f-abcf-9224780da95b X-Archives-Hash: 0d03ba70fe9d0e92b873ef0ee5d234f3 David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, Dale wrote: >> Is there some secret spice that I am missing or something? Why can't >> I take two videos and splice them together and it be something close >> to the two file sizes added together? > If resolutions and codec match, simply use mkvmerge: > > mkvmerge -o out.mkv in1.avi in2.avi ... > > HTH, > -dnh > Going to put this in the savers file for later. I sort of found a tool that works and it has a GUI. :-) May test this tho. Other tool may stop working one day and we all know plan Bs are good to have. Since this is Linux, we can go all the way to plan Z. Lots of options. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"