[thelist] combining videos
Phil Turmel
pturmel-webdev at turmel.org
Tue Mar 24 12:19:11 CDT 2009
Bob Meetin wrote:
> I have a DVD type video in .VOB format. On the DVD I received it got
> split into 3 .vob files, but of course it plays as a single file. I use
> Super for converting them into .mov files ( 2 big & 1 small).
>
> Is there a way to recombine them into a single .mov (or ultimately .swf)
> file to playback as a single video? I can do whatever necessary command
> line at the UNIX prompt. Have access to ffmpeg, mencoder, etc.
>
> I also have flash video encoder so that I can convert them to flash as
> the last step
>
> -bob
>
Bob,
VOB files are MPEG2 "program stream" containers, which have the nice
property of native "concat-ability". So, you can do something like this:
cat Part1.vob Part2.vob Part3.vob >Combined.vob
Then you can run the combined VOB through your converter of choice.
If you don't have the free space, I think you can pipe the above
directly into ffmpeg.
HTH,
Phil
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