Merging two .mpg files, of which first one broken

sylvaticus · 08-03-2008, 01:53 PM

Hello.. I need to merge two .mpeg files realizzed with xvidcap.
The problem is that doing the first one xvidcap crashed. I can view and listen the video correctly with kaffeine or mplayer, but when I go opening e.g. with avidemux or kino they refuse to open it.

How can I "repair" it or even better directly merge them from command line??

rjlee · 08-03-2008, 03:31 PM

If you can play it with mplayer, then you should be able to re-encode it using mencoder (which is usually packaged with mplayer).
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/mencoder.html

I think you can directly merge MPEG videos by simply concatenating them. I'm not sure if that's technically acceptable, but mplayer seems to cope with it:

Code:

cat file1.mpeg file2.mpeg > merged.mpeg

sylvaticus · 08-03-2008, 03:55 PM

thanks.. I already tryed with mencoder but then the resulting video is not working..

I ended up re-creating my screencast... :-(