[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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