Any way to combine MPG (mpeg) MOV & WMV files together?

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Sondra R. Wilson said:
Doing a skit, we need to combine very many multiple 30-second clips
together on our windows xp laptops to bring to summer school class for
our final team project.

First question is does anyone know how to concatonate the same type of
files together into a single file in batch or very quick modes?

Second question is does anyone know how to combine different file
types together (mpeg, mpg, mov, & wmv)?

Can we do it with free stuff?
(We don't have much time or money and it's due next Thursday so I'm
asking BEFORE researching so just give me a name or two and I can look
them up please).
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Everything just start from basic. So just continue wherever you have
already started.

1. Batch Converting I have heard, but never heard of Batch Joining. To join
multiple same_file (different with Batch) there are some but I don't
remember the name (see below)

You may be able to do using BAT command, but I don't remember all small
detail to post here (used to be DOS man, but haven't touched for years)

2. In order to combine Orange & Apple (2 different format) you will first
need to marry them to bear a Orapple child <g>, then find the program
supports Orapple to do the joining.

Same with Mpeg, Mpg, Mov, Wmv (you can join Mpeg & Mpg as MPG is short for
MPEG), you just need to convert them to ONE FORMAT then combine them.

3. What you need is a CONVETRER supports the format you want to convert
To/From. After converted them to same format, you should be able to join
them within few seconds/minutes.

Your question is so general to give more specific answer, so I would
suggest to point your browser to www.videohelp.com and check out the list of
Free/Shareware converters, and pick the one you like and go from there.

Joe; there are many Editors that accept most any input that
there are codec to read with; and convert them all to their
native format. Then you can place these clips on a timeline
and add effects until you have the movie you want. Then
many output in whatever formats your system has and a
good number also have a built-in MPEG encoder to
allow .mpg output. This is what they needed.

Then they could have authored with a real authoring
program.

Luck;
Ken
 
Hey there,

All in all, Camelware MPEGJoin was a dud, sadly so. Next ....
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If the software you've been using for joining hasn't worked on all the
files, maybe MediaJoin will work:

http://www.audiovideosoft.com/

Once you've got all the files converted, maybe this will help. It's
from a thread in here on converting MPEG to DVD:

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Subject: Re: MPEG to DVD utility?
From: Onno Voors <[email protected]>
Date: 09 Nov 2004 08:56:00 GMT
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Freeware needed:
Software to convert mpeg files created by TV capture card to DVD format
eg. VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders. For XP.

TIA
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DVDauthorgui or DVDstyler can do this. They are both interfaces for
the same command line program.
Go to www.videohelp.com for info.


--
Onno Voors

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Subject: Re: MPEG to DVD utility?
From: "ArjanDotOrg" <[email protected]>
Date: 9 Nov 2004 01:11:31 -0800
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Woodstock said:
Freeware needed:
Software to convert mpeg files created by TV capture card to DVD
format
eg. VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders. For XP.

TIA
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I use DVD2SVCD (or AVI2DVD, DVD2DVD, SVCD2DVD, it's all just one and
the same program) in combination with the QuEnc encoder:


DVD2SVCD

Overview:

DVD2SVCD automates the complex multiple steps, and the very latest
techniques, to backup DVDs to CDRs for later playing on a standalone
DVD player (that supports playing VCD/SVCDs). DVD2SVCD supports all
steps from extracting the video information from the DVD, to the final
creation of ready to burn to CDR the popular .bin/.cue format files
(CDrwin/Fireburer/Nero/others). Difficult requirements like multiple
audio tracks and multiple subtitles are all automated for the less
experienced user. DVD2SVCD even has a NTSC to PAL conversion feature.

Homepage: http://www.dvd2dvd.org/


QuEnc

Overview:

What's QuEnc? Based on ffmpeg, QuEnc is an easy to use MPEG-2 encoder
that is completely free, yet yields amazingly good quality. It's also
quite fast for an MPEG-2 encoder, but since it's a full encoder, not a
compressed domain transcoder, you won't get your DVDs done in 20
minutes. QuEnc, being a very simple program, only supports AviSynth
input. But since many people use AviSynth anyway, that should not be a
problem. QuEnc is officialy released under the GPL.

Homepage: http://www.pcpages.com/dragongodz2/

For related software, check out:
http://www.arjan.org/?Multimedia:Video

Good luck!

_____
Arjan

E-mail: (e-mail address removed) (remove NOSPAM)
Homepage: Arjan.org's Absolute Freeware Links (http://www.arjan.org)
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I noticed these useful posts by "Joe" and "Ken Maltby" were the same or
similar. Are they the same person?
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Everything just start from basic.
So just continue wherever you have already started.

1. Batch Converting I have heard, but never heard of Batch Joining.
To join multiple same_file (different with Batch) there are some
but I don't remember the name (see below)
You may be able to do using BAT command, but I don't remember all small
detail to post here (used to be DOS man, but haven't touched for years)

2. In order to combine Orange & Apple (2 different format) you will first
need to marry them to bear a Orapple child <g>, then find the program
supports Orapple to do the joining.

Same with Mpeg, Mpg, Mov, Wmv (you can join Mpeg & Mpg as MPG is short
for MPEG), you just need to convert them to ONE FORMAT then
combine them.

3. What you need is a CONVETRER supports the format you want to convert
To/From. After converted them to same format, you should be able to
join them within few seconds/minutes.

Your question is so general to give more specific answer,
so I would suggest to point your browser to www.videohelp.com
and check out the list of 46ree/Shareware converters, and pick
the one you like and go from there.

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TMPGenc DVD Author? it doesn't do converting and only accept
Mpeg-DVD-Ready format. Since TMPGenc (video conveter) is rather old, I
don't know if it supports newer format like WMV or not, but pointing to
www.videohelp.com is a good idea as he can read and check out other's.
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Are TMPGenc 2.5 & TMPGEnc XPress 3.0 essentially the same thing?
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Same company but different products.
Womble Mpeg Video Wizard is not freeware, and I don't know if they have
trial version or not, but it's one of a very useful converters.

I was using TMPGenc v2.x Plus for many years (haven't used much for 1-2
years) and it's getting old so no longer useful for me. I have looked at
their newer products like the Xpress/Editor and don't like neither one (too
slow and don't serve me well), but they are newer product so they may
support the WMV and MOV format.
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These are what you want.

1. Point your browser to web site like www.videohelp.com to
find a converter you like, and convert all format to MPG.
It may not take more than some minutes to convert each small slip.

2. You can join if you wish *but* you do not need to join them.
Or just add all those small clips (MPG files) as separated chapter,
and they will work just as good.

3. Pick the DVD Author (if small then just use CDR program like Nero to
burn as VCD would do) to create DVD. DVD Authoring, you have about 2
choice about the format

- The one with built-in converter will accept different formats, and will
spend extra time converting to Mpeg-DVD-Ready (or VOB depending on the
setting)
- The one only accept Mpeg-DVD-Ready then you will have to convert to the
format it supports. It will take some time to convert to Mpeg-DVD
ready, but it will reduce the DVD Auhtoring time (and you have the
converter of your choice)

IOW, don't waste time trying to find the magical way as there ain't any.
 
I hope you're kidding, but if not, no, they are different people...

I have thought I've recently seen another person using the name 'Joe'
on the video NGs that I read, but I'm not quite sure yet.

I know I'm not the only person using the name 'Gino', but in my case
it's a nickname of long standing, not my official name.

Gino
 
Gene E. Bloch said:
I hope you're kidding, but if not, no, they are different people...

I have thought I've recently seen another person using the name 'Joe' on
the video NGs that I read, but I'm not quite sure yet.

I know I'm not the only person using the name 'Gino', but in my case it's
a nickname of long standing, not my official name.

Gino
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Actually, after looking at her post, I think it more resembles
Joe's posts, than mine do.

LOL;
Ken

P.S. My point for this thread was that no prior conversions were
needed, or even useful, for their project. Any good Editor would
be able to work with what they had and allow them to create the
video they were looking for. While I'm not a fan of the DVD
Authoring Applications included in editing packages, they should
have been able to complete their project with just the editor.
 
Pamela D. said:
TMPGenc DVD Author? it doesn't do converting and only accept
Mpeg-DVD-Ready format. Since TMPGenc (video conveter) is rather old, I
don't know if it supports newer format like WMV or not, but pointing to
www.videohelp.com is a good idea as he can read and check out other's.
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It sounds odd but not really odd. Because like I have mentioned on
several old posts that unlike few other DVD Author programs have BUILT-IN
converter, TDA doesn't have built-in converter so you will have to use
external converter to make the clip Mpeg-DVD-Ready.

And *if* you have everything Mpeg-DVD-Ready then it may only take between
15-45 minutes to author a DVD (15-20 mins of you have fast system and audio
changed to 48khz instead of 44khz for VCD/SVCD)

Others those accept most formats still need to convert to DVD-Ready, and
it may take hour(s) to author a DVD (of course lesser if already
Mpeg-DVD-Ready).

I have nly run into WMV once, and I used older Procoder v1.5 to convert
over 4-6G of WMV to VCD (the WMV files were in lower resolution, so the size
of VCD was 20-30+ times larger)
 
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