Have you ever had two or more movie files that you would like to join? So that you can burn them to DVD as one single movie file, which plays continuously without skipping for a change between files? Well, if you are using Linux this can be easily done. If you are using Arch Linux, you will only need to: "pacman -S mplayer" and if you are using another Linux distribution you have to make sure mplayer comes bundled with mencoder, if not install mencoder & mplayer, for ubuntu that should be: "sudo apg-get install mencoder mplayer". Now change to the directory where the files are and issue the following command:

  • mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy thefile1.avi thefile2.avi -o thefinalfileiwant.avi
That should make it, it performs fast and it leaves the quality of the files intact. If you have any question about this tip post your comments and I shall look to answer them if I can. Also note that this can work with .mpeg as far as I know. You can correct me and add suggestions in the comments. Hope this helps, thanks for reading.