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From: "Edward Ruggeri" <smallhand@crawblog.com>
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Subject: Re: joining 2 files together ?
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote:
> But to answer your real question, you can't just mash two avi files
> together to make 1 big one.  You'll need something like avidemux or
> one of the command line tools to actually get the avi headers correct.

If I recall correctly, generally you can play the file, but it will
stop at the end of the first "part."  However, I think you can seek
past that point and avoid the premature termination.

Which is to say that you are correct.

-- Ned Ruggeri