[mythtv-users] Little gems on MythTV wiki

[Brent Bolin]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Christopher Meredith
<chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:46 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:41:05AM -0600, Brent Bolin wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Christopher Meredith
>>> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Christopher Meredith
>>> >> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>> Ran across this info -
>> [deletia]
>>> >> Does "Also, you should use either the mp4 or mkv containers for H264"
>>> >> make a quality difference?
>>> >
>>> > None at all. But modern container formats are more efficient and
>>> > introduce greater possibilities. At least Matroska allows multiple
>>> > streams, embedded subtitles, chapters, attachments, etc. It can also
>>> > reduce confusion (such as here) where you're working with data that is
>>> > not typically found in a .mpg file.
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>>> Thanks for your quick reply.  Can you give me the cli syntax to join 2
>>> mp4 video files together.  There are many arguments for this command.
>>
>> ...yes. That would be a handy one. I have found some fan produced videos
>> where they thought it would be a good idea to split the show into multiple
>> pieces. I can't really fathom why they thought it was a good idea.
>
> Sorry. After all that, I didn't even answer the question. For mp4 files:
>
> MP4Box -cat file1.mp4 -cat file2.mp4 -cat file3.mp4 CompleteFile.mp4
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You answered a lot.  Some times you don't even know what you don't know :)

thx