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[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 23:12 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That is what happened. <grins> Damn. I thought it would be easy. Should
> I convert the files to another format to do that? Or what would you
> suggest, oh IMOM? Thanx, Ric

Other than old school MPEG, none of the other formats are linear AFAIK. 
There are tools for working with H264 media, however I've never played 
with them.  I think you need to do some Googling.

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