Hi, Can someone tell me how to rejoin .mpeg/.avi/.mov/.wmv type files, I have some from a local binaries usenet and to post they split them up some are 6 sections and have an .eml added,the majority use M$ to OP. I'm using fc2 and mplayer but know nothing of video.
Thanks david
Use tmpgenc.
Todd
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:23:56 +1000, david walcroft david_walcroft@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Hi, Can someone tell me how to rejoin .mpeg/.avi/.mov/.wmv type files, I have some from a local binaries usenet and to post they split them up some are 6 sections and have an .eml added,the majority use M$ to OP. I'm using fc2 and mplayer but know nothing of video.
Thanks david
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david walcroft wrote:
Hi, Can someone tell me how to rejoin .mpeg/.avi/.mov/.wmv type files, I have some from a local binaries usenet and to post they split them up some are 6 sections and have an .eml added,the majority use M$ to OP. I'm using fc2 and mplayer but know nothing of video.
Thanks david
I used to use a simple script called uustrip. That was 10-15 years ago. I haven't found any updated version of it in a while. It is basically a wrapper for uudecode to strip out the header info from the various postings leaving only the uuencoded part which it then sent to uudecode. No support for newer encoding methods (xxencode or rar or such).
I also used to use AUB (Assemble Usenet Binaries) which would read files directly from various NewsGroups via nntp and decode the contents of all of the fragmented files which were comepletly available.... It was written entirely in Perl, and did the decoding itself. It did its best to find all of the partial files by sorting through the Subject lines and grouping based the part numbers. Again, my copy is old enough to not support other than uuencoded binaries.
I've often wished that some of the (current) Newsreaders had better support for grouping/saving/decoding split postings. XRn used to do it real well 15 years ago.... Mozilla/Thunderbird won't even let you save multiple postings to a single file!
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
I used to use a simple script called uustrip. That was 10-15 years ago. I haven't found any updated version of it in a while. It is basically a wrapper for uudecode to strip out the header info from the various postings leaving only the uuencoded part which it then sent to uudecode. No support for newer encoding methods (xxencode or rar or such).
I also used to use AUB (Assemble Usenet Binaries) which would read files directly from various NewsGroups via nntp and decode the contents of all of the fragmented files which were comepletly available.... It was written entirely in Perl, and did the decoding itself. It did its best to find all of the partial files by sorting through the Subject lines and grouping based the part numbers. Again, my copy is old enough to not support other than uuencoded binaries.
I've often wished that some of the (current) Newsreaders had better support for grouping/saving/decoding split postings. XRn used to do it real well 15 years ago.... Mozilla/Thunderbird won't even let you save multiple postings to a single file!
Thanks kevin, Managed to get back into sorting out the binaries after a hard bout with bi-polar,I found the perl prog. aub at freshmeat and a rpm at rpmfind ver.2.1.3-1.i686 but is two years old and does not appear to be maintained anymore,it handled all the various .ext's but I forgot the -c option first up.
--- 108 images -- bigpond.broadband.binaries -> /home/david/kinema ----- all done -- bigpond.broadband.binaries -- Extracted Files: 108, Total Time Taken: 499 secs -- Thrown away files: 19 (not encoded, or illegal suffix, or duplicate) -- Total Extracted: 344413.1 KBytes -- Total Downloaded: 507750.6 KBytes -- Rate of downloading (includes decode time): 1017.5 KBytes/sec
I ran a few .wmv's and appear to be very good (no jerks at a joining point - not that I would notice! )
Thanks for the help david
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:23:56 +1000, david walcroft david_walcroft@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Hi, Can someone tell me how to rejoin .mpeg/.avi/.mov/.wmv type files, I have some from a local binaries usenet and to post they split them up some are 6 sections and have an .eml added,the majority use M$ to OP. I'm using fc2 and mplayer but know nothing of video.
This might not work since I don't know the internal .mpeg or .avi or whatever format but why don't you try:
cat $mpeg1 $mpeg2 > $megaMPEG
and see what happens?
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 07:27 -0400, Filippos Klironomos wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:23:56 +1000, david walcroft david_walcroft@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Hi, Can someone tell me how to rejoin .mpeg/.avi/.mov/.wmv type files, I have some from a local binaries usenet and to post they split them up some are 6 sections and have an .eml added,the majority use M$ to OP. I'm using fc2 and mplayer but know nothing of video.
This might not work since I don't know the internal .mpeg or .avi or whatever format but why don't you try:
cat $mpeg1 $mpeg2 > $megaMPEG
and see what happens?
This works fine for mpeg files but not avi (though given that AVI is more a wrapper than a codec, I might be wrong there. Any way I used this often for mpg and has always worked. Only used once for .avi with no result, never tried .mov etc.
Scott
david walcroft wrote:
Hi, Can someone tell me how to rejoin .mpeg/.avi/.mov/.wmv type files, I have some from a local binaries usenet and to post they split them up some are 6 sections and have an .eml added,the majority use M$ to OP. I'm using fc2 and mplayer but know nothing of video.
Thanks david
Let me understand clearly.
You are downloading a multipart binary from Usenet. You get something like yyy.avi.001 yyy.avi.002 yyy.avi.003 in your saved directory, correct? (I was going to use xxx but I thought that was suggesting something.) ;)
Now if this is correct, then all you have to do is cat them together. I have done this for years. Now to compound things, I have found that if and .avi file is missing a segment, and it of some certain formats, it won't play past the missing segment. I have run across the same problem with .wmv files. I wrote a simple script but it won't work with files that have spaces in their names.
Now if you look at the instructions for mencoder, there is a method that will join avi segments and process the index. It works sometimes. I did have a command that would repair avi's and process avi segments using mencoder but I lost it during the xmas cleanup. I shouldn't have relied on a sticky note to stay around.
Also if you have a problem with a file, using mplayer -idx filename sometimes helps as well.
Mplayer is a nice tool but I found that avifile that was on RH 6 was great as it would play almost any segment of a file which I cannot get mplayer to do. It could have something to do with the codec of the avi.
Look at the mplayer/mencoder documentation.
Robin Laing wrote:
david walcroft wrote:
Hi, Can someone tell me how to rejoin .mpeg/.avi/.mov/.wmv type files, I have some from a local binaries usenet and to post they split them up some are 6 sections and have an .eml added,the majority use M$ to OP. I'm using fc2 and mplayer but know nothing of video.
Thanks david
Let me understand clearly.
You are downloading a multipart binary from Usenet. You get something like yyy.avi.001 yyy.avi.002 yyy.avi.003 in your saved directory, correct? (I was going to use xxx but I thought that was suggesting something.) ;)
Now if this is correct, then all you have to do is cat them together. I have done this for years. Now to compound things, I have found that if and .avi file is missing a segment, and it of some certain formats, it won't play past the missing segment. I have run across the same problem with .wmv files. I wrote a simple script but it won't work with files that have spaces in their names.
Now if you look at the instructions for mencoder, there is a method that will join avi segments and process the index. It works sometimes. I did have a command that would repair avi's and process avi segments using mencoder but I lost it during the xmas cleanup. I shouldn't have relied on a sticky note to stay around.
Also if you have a problem with a file, using mplayer -idx filename sometimes helps as well.
Mplayer is a nice tool but I found that avifile that was on RH 6 was great as it would play almost any segment of a file which I cannot get mplayer to do. It could have something to do with the codec of the avi.
Look at the mplayer/mencoder documentation.
Thanks everybody, I think it will take a couple of days to work through all the info so I'll post any results (if I get any )
david
david walcroft wrote:
Hi, Can someone tell me how to rejoin .mpeg/.avi/.mov/.wmv type files, I have some from a local binaries usenet and to post they split them up some are 6 sections and have an .eml added,the majority use M$ to OP. I'm using fc2 and mplayer but know nothing of video.
Thanks david
Try avidemux