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Re: [OT] .wmv joiners

• Posted by ags <eu at 531pi.co.nz> May 01, 2006
• 631 views

don cole wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Does anyone know how to join WMV files with the following form:
> 
> Somefile.wmv.001
> Somefile.wmv.002
> Somefile.wmv.003
> Somefile.wmv.004
> Somefile.wmv.005
> Somefile.wmv.006
> 
> I have tried a couple of joiners but get a not a proper formate error on all
> the files except the first one.

You could be being bitten (try organising that into proper English :/) by
Digital Rights Managment--just because you can play a movie file doesn't mean you
can re-encode it (same with WMA).

Just a quick look at the WMV spec (version 9, FourCC: WMV3) suggests that it is
wrapped in a container (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMV) and as such a
binary join of the files won't make any sense (it will play the first one as that
is what the container says is there :)

All in all why I boycott Microsoft's formats at home and at work (where format
conversion is extremely important to us :)

If you can get hold of the illegal version of VirtualDub then you might be in
luck, but then you would be breaking the law...

Gary