Help: Is there any method to connect several MPEG2 files into one?

[bogota]

hi,
Is there any method to connect several MPEG2 files into one? I know if I add them into a timeline and render the timeline as a MPEG2 file, it will take the time as much as to combine several avi files into one MPEG2 file.

So I just wonder whether there is a quick way to connect several MPEG2 files into one.

Thanks

[Guest]

Use DOS binary concatenation.

[setarip_old]

And if you aren't familiar with DOS (copy /b file(1).mpg+file(2).mpg+file(last).mpg combined.mpg), as an alternative, you could use "TMPGEnc" as follows:

TMPGEnc>>File>>MPEGTools>>Merge&Cut...

[bogota]

Thanks

[setarip_old]

Thanks

My (Our) pleasure ;>}

[Zig Fowler]

Use DOS binary concatenation.

Would this also work for video files other than MPEG2's?

[Guest]

Would this also work for video files other than MPEG2's? It should work for any non-containerized MPEG, e.g, MPEG1. It will also work for transport streams if the PIDs are the same and the receiving application doesn't mind possible timestamp discontinuities.

[gumballguy]

I use both methods myself too.
Using the binary dos method will leave a bit of extra data in the file (the header, ie: file content information at the start of the second file) which shouldnt be there. That said, it usually doesnt cause problems having it there.
TMPEG wont do this, but doesnt seem to like some mpeg streams though.

Try either! I would recommend that you play the file at the join to check that it doesnt freeze or stutter before deleting the original files though. So, if you have a 1min & 2min file to join, play it from 55secs to 1m05s.

A bit long winded. I just wanted to say that you should check the output, thats all :)