[thelist] combining videos - solved

Bob Meetin bobm at dottedi.biz
Tue Mar 24 12:27:52 CDT 2009


yeah this was 'too' simple.  sometimes a complicated, sophisticated 
solution makes you feel like you've earned a beer.  this worked perfectly.

Phil Turmel wrote:
> 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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