cat oddity?

[Daniel Hazelbaker]

I believe ffmpegX will join multiple .mpg files together.

Daniel

On Aug 21, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Derek Chesterfield wrote:

> 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?