14 Mar
2007
14 Mar
'07
3:32 p.m.
One trick I
found, which I was surprised at, was that you seem to be able to
'cat' several mpeg files together into one and a player will happily play the
entirety of the subsequent file. Weird; I mean most formats expect a single
header and some data, but mpeg seems to be able to cope just fine with lots of
header and data segments.
But by cat-ing several mpegs together you DO end up with a single header,
IIRC it's why the cat command exists in the first place, remember that all
it does is concatenate multiples to a single. A side effect is that you