cat oddity?

[Derek Chesterfield]

I'm pretty sure that cat can only be used to join PARTs of a single  
MPEG together. E.g. someone has a huge file, and splits it into  
multiple files, then cat can join them. But if each individual file  
is a discrete movie, then that's completely different.

I am not aware of any quick utility to join multiple MPEGs into one.  
[But there may be some]

On 21 Aug 2007, at 15:06, robinmcf at altern.org wrote:

>  I have a load (30+) of  videos recorded on my cellphone which I  
> was planning to edit together.  After reading on the web that  
> 'cat'  can be used to join mpeg-1 files together along the lines of
>
>
> cat 1.mpg 2.mpg 3.mpg ... > all.mpg
>
>
> I gave it a try but it's not working out, I seem to be getting  
> 1.mpg with a frame or two from 2.mpg.
>
>
>  Am I missing something fundamental or is there a prob with cat?
>
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