avimerge(1)avimerge(1)NAMEavimerge - merge several AVI-files into one
SYNOPSISavimerge-o name -i file1 [ file2 [ ... ] ] [ -p file ] [ -a num ] [ -A
num ] [ -b num ] [ -c ] [ -f commentfile ] [ -x indexfile ]
COPYRIGHTavimerge is Copyright (C) by Thomas Oestreich.
DESCRIPTIONavimerge is a versatile tool. It can contatenate several AVI files
into one. It can also be used to fix an index of a broken file and can
also replace audio tracks or muxes new ones. It can read raw AC3 and
MP3 files for multplexing.
OPTIONS-o name
Specify the name of the output file.
-i file
Specify the name(s) of the input file(s) to merge into the out‐
put file.
-p file
Specify the name of the audio file to multiplex into the output
file. The type of file can be either another AVI file or an MP3
or AC3 file.
-b num Specify if avimerge should write an VBR mp3 header into the AVI
file. Default is dependent on the input file (and usually cor‐
rect). num is either 1 or 0.
-c Drop video frames in case audio is missing [off]
Only when merging multiple AVI files. Some AVI files run a lit‐
tle bit (usually for one or two video frames) short on audio.
This means avimerge cannot keep up sync when concatinating them.
The files play fine when played individually but not when merged
because audio from the new file gets played back with video from
the old file. avimerge will print a message like
No audiodata left for track 0->0 (59950.25=59950.25) continuing ..
When you turn on the -c option, the video which is too much will
be dropped.
-f commentfile
Read AVI tombstone data for header comments from commentfile.
See /docs/avi_comments.txt for a sample.
-x indexfile
Read the AVI index from indexfile. See aviindex(1) for informa‐
tion on how to create such a file.
-a num Specify the number of the audio track you want to use from the
input file.
-A num Specify the number of the audio track you want to use in the
output file. If you specify an existing track number, the track
will be replaced. If omitted, the next free slot will be used.
EXAMPLES
The command
avimerge-o big.avi -i my_file1.avi my_file2.avi my_file3.avi
merges the three input files my_file[123].avi into one big AVI-file
big.avi.
avimerge-o out.avi -i in.avi -p audio2.avi -a 1
merges track number 1 form in.avi to the next free track number in
out.avi. You can create audio-only AVI-files using
transcode -i song.mp3 -x null,mp3 -g 0x0 -y raw -a 1 -o audio2.avi -u 50
The command
avimerge-o out.avi -i in.avi -p sound.mp3
merges the file sound.mp3 as an additional audio track into out.avi.
AUTHORSavimerge was written by Thomas Oestreich
<ostreich@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de> with contributions from
many others. See AUTHORS for details.
SEE ALSOaviindex(1), avifix(1), avisplit(1), tccat(1), tcdecode(1), tcdemux(1),
tcextract(1), tcprobe(1), tcscan(1), transcode(1)avimerge(1) 26th January 2004 avimerge(1)
