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Combine all .mpeg files in current directory into one big one.

Terminal - Combine all .mpeg files in current directory into one big one.
cat *.mpg > all.mpg
2009-03-27 04:49:18
User: smcpherson
Functions: cat
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Combine all .mpeg files in current directory into one big one.

Good old cat & output redirection. Using this method you can combine all kinds of things - even mpeg files. My video camera makes a series of .mpeg files that are broken into 4gb chunks. Using this command I can easily join them together. Even better, combined with the cp command the files can be copied and joined in one step.

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haha, that works?

Comment by linuxrawkstar 165 weeks ago

sure does - at least for me. Have done it a ton of times without a problem. Note that this does not work with other video formats, like .avi files as the index needs to be rewritten after joining files.

To move & join files from my camera to my desktop I would do something like this:

cat `ls /media/HDD_CAMERA/*.mpg` > ~/Desktop/ALL.mpg

Comment by smcpherson 165 weeks ago

.mpg is deprecated, .mkv (matroska) is the way to go:

mkvmerge -o all.mkv file1.mpg +file2.mpg +file3.mpg +file4.mpg
Comment by SlimG 165 weeks ago

This works with mp3s (audio books) as well.

Comment by Williebee 165 weeks ago

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