joining movie files

[7Words]

i have vcd movies which span onto 2 cds and would like to join them together on the computer so i can view them without switching cds or opening up separate movie files.

i know somebody already asked for a program that does a similar task but i cannot find the post.

thx

[JayMan]

hmm i dunno if this works or not, but i beleive i have seen somewhere a batch file to join acouple files into one, basically the batch file done something like this in dos:
rename movie1.mpeg + movie2.mpeg + movie3.mpeg moviefull.mpeg

which i beleive would join all the files together to make "moviefull.mpeg", syntax may not be 100% correct here cuz i am only going from memory.

JayMan

[7Words]

Hey thx for the input jayman,
Somebody out there must know a program that does this without me creating my own batch file.

[LostUser]

Hi,

To join multiple files together from the command line you need to use the 'copy' command with the /b parameter. You then specify all the individual files you want to merge and a name for the one big file you want to create. Whether this would work for your videos I don't know.

Frankly, if your too lazy to type a couple of commands to do what you want to do then you obviously don't want it that bad. There is a program called Winmerge which I believe gives you a GUI for this procedure.

Hope this helps

[qball]

I agree lazy is as lazy does.

from DOS box;

copy movie1.mpg + movie2.mpg onebigmovie.mpg "enter"

[JayMan]

qball thats exactlty what i was talking about, 7words i didn't mean you had to create a batch file to do it, the batch file simply does the dos commands for you. I just wasn't sure of exact syntax for it (copy, rename etc..).

Also, 7words, on the site i gave you in your other post about dat to mpegs, it has some programs there for joining mpegs.

JayMan