Combining video files?

[Crewman47]

I've been downloading videos off Itunes and have noticed that there split into equal sized parts and was wondering how I go about putting them back together?

I did find a site that says you can do it in Command line, using this:

copy /B “C:\movie1.mpg” + “C:\movie2.mpg” + “C:\movie3.mpg” “C:\completemovie.mpg”

which I tried but didn't work as I expected. As you can see it uses mpg's but I'm trying mp4's.

I'm looking for free programs, if possible or any good cheap licensed programs.

Thanks

 

[Jadzia]

That command creates an append without care for what the data is. It would be analogous to supergluing two dvds together.

Or maybe not, because I don't know how a video player would handle it, but I don't expect it to work.

You will need a proper video editor.

Google "merging mp4" will bring up a variety of suggestions, but I don't know of any free software that will do it without converting to another format first.

 

[Marc]

I use some programs from a company called Aimersoft. Their video converter should do the trick for you and will set you back about $US40 iirc.

It will allow you take multiple files and merge to them to a single file (I've got their DVD ripper which allows me to do the same thing with files from a DVD e.g a disc with multiple eps of a tv series).

 

[farmkid]

Go here and search for "join" to start. There are plenty of tools listed there to do just about whatever you want with video, it's just a matter of finding the right one. VirtualDub might work, but I've never tried using it with .mp4 files.

 

[Iasius]

I've had some (limited) success using SUPER with some videos.

SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer.
A GUI to FFmpeg, MEncoder, MPlayer, x264, musepack,
monkey's audio, true audio, wavpack, ffmpeg2theora
and the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn.

It's free to download, so not too much of a downside to giving it a try.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Would DRM cause problems? I'm thinking that there might be some hash or signature that is bound to the content.

 

[BigFoot]

I use Boilsoft's Video Joiner which works great.