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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Video editing advice on formats and size of file
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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

-- 
Grant