[mythtv-users] concatenating recordings?

Josh Rosenberg mythtv at desh.info
Fri Oct 28 14:05:31 UTC 2011


>> I'd like to merge these recordings into one video file, still
>> accessible to MythTV as a recording.  Is there any way to do that, and
>> if so, how?  I'm new to manually mucking with recordings (I think I've
>> found these, still in the livetv folder even though I've saved them),
>> so any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Do you have avidemux available? (DISCLAIMER: I'm the Fedora maintainer
> via RPM Fusion)
>
> It makes it really easy. You can ether open the first video and append
> the rest, or if they're named appropriately (i.e. alphabetical order)
> you can open them from File->Open at the same time and it will auto
> append. Just make sure you set the Audio and Video options to Copy,
> unless you really want to convert it to something else.
>
> Richard

I have it on a Windows box, and could get it for my Myth box, but
wouldn't this lead to Myth getting really confused?  Isn't there
metadata I need to deal with?


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