Good way to splice and compress dv avis?

[cayblood]

We are doing live capture of many live dv streams on linux using dvgrab. dvgrab produces 1GB dv files. We would like to take these dv files and combine them together into a more compressed format like h.264 while maintaining the quality level. I have been doing this with avisynth using AVISource() + AVISource() etc., but I would like to find a way to do the splicing in linux and produce a more compressed single avi that I could bring into avisynth for further editing. I imagine there are linux command-line tools that could do this. Can somebody please suggest some?

Thanks,
Carl Youngblood

[Irakli]

Hello.

You can try to use mencoder with following command line:

mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -noodml -o "joined.avi" "1.avi" "2.avi"

This command will join files 1.avi and 2.avi into joined.avi. Of course, you can specify more than 2 files to join.

Regards,
Irakli