cat

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
> I've got 7 splintered .mov files that together would make one
> complete .mov file. How do I cat them together, using the cat command. I
> thought I knew how (cat file1 file2 file3 >bigfile) but that doesn't
> seem to work. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Ric

You can't do that.  Quicktime H264 content is not linear.  Concatenating 
multiple files will end up with a big binary blob.

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