Not really, since wmv is a compressed "lossy" format anyway. Converting to raw avi is just a way to get it to a workable format. This format took a 32M file and turned it into 1.5G - definitely not a "usable" size. after recompressing to xvid I noticed no difference in quality from the original wmv files.
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 06:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 02:15 -0500, Jason Donahue wrote: > > For anyone who is interested, here is how I merged a bunch of wmv files > > into one movie: > > > > First use mencoder to convert files to raw avi: > > > > mencoder clip1.wmv -oac pcm -ovc raw -o tmp1.avi > > mencoder clip2.wmv -oac pcm -ovc raw -o tmp2.avi > > ... > > ... > > ... > > > > Then use avimerge to combine all the files: > > > > avimerge -o "bigfile.avi" -i tmp1.avi tmp2.avi ... ... > > > > Finally, use mencoder again to shrink the file down (I chose xvid): > > Wouldn't you lose some quality this way? > > > mencoder bigfile.avi -o final.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts > > bitrate=16000 > > > > Hope this helps some other poor souls... > > > > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:14 -0500, Jason Donahue wrote: > > > I have several wmv files in the form of clip1/wmv clip2.wmv, etc. I want > > > to merge them into one big file using linux only (I have no windows > > > box). > > > > > > Can this be done with transcode? If not, what other *nix utility would > > > get the job done ? > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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