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Depends on your OS.

WinFF for Windows, and ffmpegX for OS X should do it! If your buddy is on linux then using the CLI will be good practice for him/her. :)

Whatever tool you use, I guess you better do it in multiple steps, as 70000 files in one pass might crash like it did when you tried with iMovie and Premier.

The good thing with mencoder is that it just copies the streams, and doesn't try to recompress them.

It looks like recent(?) versions of mencoder can be downloaded from this site (follow the mencoder and mplayer binaries link) and use my previous comment example as a template for the command you should run.

My advice would be to proceed 500 files at a time if possible, to generate 140 intermediary files, and then merge these 140 into the final video. A script should help, if you need (slow) help with that, I can write a small script once you provide me with the filename template of your existing files.

If anyone happens to be stuck by the inability to playback .mkv or other unsupported file types for PS3 while also using a Mac, i'd suggest getting FFmpegX. You can drag and drop for trans-coding and then transfer the file over to the ps3 with storage media or just drag&drop it with Vuse/Azureus.

I trans-coded a 2.5gig mkv last night for the PS3 and it took about.. maybe 4 minutes? And my mac mini isn't a powerhouse by any means.

ffmpeg is a free Open Source project that converts a ton of formats into a ton of formats. FFMpegX is a OSX GUI to the traditional *nix command line tool.

I'm guessing you want to convert it to DV or something. This can do that. I usually use the command line tool, so I can't tell you how to convert your files, but google will help.

Transcoding WMV to other formats for no other reason than you don’t think WMV is “civilized” is utterly pointless, and will result in quality loss (assuming you will encode to another lossy codec, like H.264).

That said, ffmpeg is perfect for the job. ffmpegX seems like a popular front-end for Mac, but it’s a bit out of date. Here are some recent builds, if you don’t mind trying to figure out the command-line interface.

edit: Wait, are you converting from WMV or to WMV? Either way, ffmpeg should do the trick.

I think you may misunderstand the directions in the last post. You wouldn't be making any changes to the original library at all. You would create a second, temporary, library to work on the files you want to work on, and then remove it when you're done. After that, you go back to using your unmodified library.

If that doesn't work, it sounds like http://www.ffmpegx.com/ might be what you want.

XviD was a pretty common codec about 5-10 years ago for web video. Some people still use it (and those people are awful). Having a Mac is pretty important information because these sorts of codecs have a habit of "just working" on Windows because Premiere has a DirectShow decoder on it.

I did a little bit of digging and it seems the only thing you can do is convert the video file to something else. I would personally use command line ffmpeg to convert this, but I would have no idea how to do that on a Mac. Thankfully it looks like someone made a neat thing: http://www.ffmpegx.com/index.html

H.264/AAC inside an MP4 is supported natively by Premiere so you could use this to convert it. I would turn the quality as high as possible to avoid reducing the quality from your XviD any more.

Ah, I see what you're doing. Anyways, if you have the Flash app you should be able to embed video straight into an SWF. If not, you might be able to use VLC or FFmpegX to convert your video to a .flv file, which you should be able to embed like a regular flash file using <object> or <embed>

With an .avi file, the subtitles are stored separately and the media software overlays the subtitles on top of the playing video. Some DVD players can actually do this, too (play the avi file directly and access the separate subtitle file).

But in your case, when you author a DVD from several avi files, the subtitles are just left behind. If you want the subtitles on the DVD, you need something like DVD Studio Pro (which can author DVDs with all the goodies) or something to encode them INTO the video file like avidemux, which isn't all that user-friendly, to be honest. In the latter case, the subtitles are permanently encoded into the video, so they can't be turned on or off like a commercial DVD.

Edit: Actually here's another option that could work: ffmpegX. ~~Looking at the "Tools" tab of that program, you can use the "author" tool to do what you're looking for.~~

Edit again: Here's what you're looking for.

http://www.ffmpegx.com/

Someone mentioned that it's possible to join video files using cat in the command line; I tend to doubt that. I hope a more advanced user can explain how that works; that'd be really cool.

I find handbreake a bit slow for that. I use ffmpegx. Works great for adding subtitles in one shot, too. I have a lot of subbed movies and they're all .srt's and not hardcoded. Used to be a bitch to not be able to watch them on the ps3 and the big screen.