Command prompt confusion

[Guest Dick Baker]

As somebody who had two CMP computers before switching to DOS, and who

stuck with DOS long after most of the world had switched to Windows, I

thought I was conversant with DOS/Command prompts, but this one has me

baffled. I need to combine several .wmv files into one, e.g., combine

 

1.wmv and 2.wmv and 3.wmv into 1-3.wmv

 

The various Windows GUI programs I found are all wretchedly convoluted

and slow, but there's a plain old DOS program that's supposed to do the

trick, wmvappend.exe.

 

It's command prompt syntax is given as

 

wmvappend -o <outfile> -i1 <firstinfile> -i2 <secondinfile> [-a

<attributeindex>]

outfile = Output WMV file name

firstinfile = First Input WMV file name

secondinfile = Second Input WMV file name

attributeindex = (1 or 2)Input file index for applying attributes

to outfile

 

I've tried many variations and can't come up with anything that works.

Can anybody tell me exactly what to type at the command prompt to combine

1. & 2. & 3.wmv into 1-3.wmv?

 

Thanks in advance for any help...

 

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[Guest Dick Baker]

Re: Command prompt confusion addendum

 

Re: Command prompt confusion addendum

 

I didn't make this clear in first note: I realize that wmvappend.exe is not

built into WinXP -- I tracked it down and downloaded it. When run, it

gives the syntax hits described above. But does that mean

 

wmvappend -1-3.wmv -1.wmv -2.wmv -3.wmv

or

wmvappend -o 1-3wmv -i1 1.wmv -i2 2.wmv -i3 3.wmv

or

some other variation (the two above don't work).

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[Guest sgopus]

Re: Command prompt confusion addendum

 

Re: Command prompt confusion addendum

 

I would think since the program using the hypen as a seperator, you can't use

it in a filename.

I'm not familiar with the program but try this:

wmvappend -outfilename -firstfileinname -secondinputfilename

-thirdinputfilename

do not use a hyphen in the filename.

 

"Dick Baker" wrote:

> I didn't make this clear in first note: I realize that wmvappend.exe is not

> built into WinXP -- I tracked it down and downloaded it. When run, it

> gives the syntax hits described above. But does that mean

>

> wmvappend -1-3.wmv -1.wmv -2.wmv -3.wmv

> or

> wmvappend -o 1-3wmv -i1 1.wmv -i2 2.wmv -i3 3.wmv

> or

> some other variation (the two above don't work).

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>

[Guest Dick Baker]

Answered my own question

 

Answered my own question

 

=?Utf-8?B?c2dvcHVz?= <sgopus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

news:C941A674-5D55-4D80-89D4-1072B07C52F4@microsoft.com:

> I would think since the program using the hypen as a seperator, you

> can't use it in a filename.

> I'm not familiar with the program but try this:

> wmvappend -outfilename -firstfileinname -secondinputfilename

> -thirdinputfilename

> do not use a hyphen in the filename.

>

> "Dick Baker" wrote:

>

>> I didn't make this clear in first note: I realize that wmvappend.exe

>> is not built into WinXP -- I tracked it down and downloaded it. When

>> run, it gives the syntax hits described above. But does that mean

>>

>> wmvappend -1-3.wmv -1.wmv -2.wmv -3.wmv

>> or

>> wmvappend -o 1-3wmv -i1 1.wmv -i2 2.wmv -i3 3.wmv

>> or

>> some other variation (the two above don't work).

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>> Dick Baker

>> (contact via http://goon.org/newcontact.php)

>>

 

I figured it out with further experimentation. It wasn't the hyphen in

the filename (although that was a logical guess, I suppose). It was that

I was giving wmvappend credit for acting like the copy command, which

will concatentate an unlimited number of files into one.

 

wmvappend works only to combine two files into one. So the only way to

accomplish my task was

 

wmvappend -o 1-2.wmv -i1 1.wmv -i2 2.wmv

to get 1-2.wmv, then

wmvappend -o 1-3.wmv -i1 1-2.wmv -i3 3.wmv

to get 1-3.wmv

....and then repeated steps to add 4, 5, 6, etc. How bloody damned

cumbersome!

 

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[Guest VanguardLH]

Re: Command prompt confusion addendum

 

Re: Command prompt confusion addendum

 

"Dick Baker" <seesig4address@goon.org> wrote in message

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>I didn't make this clear in first note: I realize that wmvappend.exe

>is not

> built into WinXP -- I tracked it down and downloaded it. When run,

> it

> gives the syntax hits described above. But does that mean

>

> wmvappend -1-3.wmv -1.wmv -2.wmv -3.wmv

> or

> wmvappend -o 1-3wmv -i1 1.wmv -i2 2.wmv -i3 3.wmv

> or

> some other variation (the two above don't work).

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> Dick Baker

> (contact via http://goon.org/newcontact.php)

 

 

The program combines only 2 files on each run of the program. Stop

trying to combine all 3 files. You will have to combine 2 at a time,

then use that combined file as an input and add a 3rd file, use that

output combined file and add a 4th file, and so on. If you have more

than 2 files to combine, you have to combine the first 2, and then

combine the output of the prior combine with 1 additional file (so you

keeping adding 1 file at a time).

 

wmvappend -o tmp1.wmv -i1 1.wmv -i2 2.wmv

wmvappend -o tmp2.wmv -i1 tmp1.wmv -i2 3.wmv

wmvappend -o tmp3.wmv -i1 tmp2.wmv -i2 4.wmv

wmvappend -o tmp4.wmv -i1 tmp3.wmv -i2 5.wmv

wmvappend -o tmp5.wmv -i1 tmp4.wmv -i2 6.wmv

wmvappend -o tmp6.wmv -i1 tmp5.wmv -i2 7.wmv

....

 

You could reduce this to 2 temp files by toggling between them:

 

wmvappend -o tmp1.wmv -i1 1.wmv -i2 2.wmv

wmvappend -o tmp2.wmv -i1 tmp1.wmv -i2 3.wmv

wmvappend -o tmp1.wmv -i1 tmp2.wmv -i2 4.wmv

wmvappend -o tmp2.wmv -i1 tmp1.wmv -i2 5.wmv

wmvappend -o tmp1.wmv -i1 tmp2.wmv -i2 6.wmv

wmvappend -o tmp2.wmv -i1 tmp1.wmv -i2 7.wmv

....

[Guest Panic]

Re: Command prompt confusion

 

You can also use the copy command. Type in copy/? to get all the options.

For .mp3 or .wmv binary files you have to add the /b to the filenames to

keep them binary. Example I had 2 mp3 files by the same artist. Say it was

GeorgeOrwell-I love you.mp3 and GeorgeOrwell-I hate you.mp3. You could go

to the folder containing them and type copy geor*/b C:\newgeorge.mp3/b and

it will combine all songs with that beginning into a new mp3 file named

newgeorge.mp3 in your root directory.

 

"Dick Baker" <seesig4address@goon.org> wrote in message

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> As somebody who had two CMP computers before switching to DOS, and who

> stuck with DOS long after most of the world had switched to Windows, I

> thought I was conversant with DOS/Command prompts, but this one has me

> baffled. I need to combine several .wmv files into one, e.g., combine

>

> 1.wmv and 2.wmv and 3.wmv into 1-3.wmv

>

> The various Windows GUI programs I found are all wretchedly convoluted

> and slow, but there's a plain old DOS program that's supposed to do the

> trick, wmvappend.exe.

>

> It's command prompt syntax is given as

>

> wmvappend -o <outfile> -i1 <firstinfile> -i2 <secondinfile> [-a

> <attributeindex>]

> outfile = Output WMV file name

> firstinfile = First Input WMV file name

> secondinfile = Second Input WMV file name

> attributeindex = (1 or 2)Input file index for applying attributes

> to outfile

>

> I've tried many variations and can't come up with anything that works.

> Can anybody tell me exactly what to type at the command prompt to combine

> 1. & 2. & 3.wmv into 1-3.wmv?

>

> Thanks in advance for any help...

>

> --

> --------------------------------------------

> Dick Baker

> (contact via http://goon.org/newcontact.php)

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: Command prompt confusion

 

Panic wrote:

> You can also use the copy command. Type in copy/? to get all the

> options. For .mp3 or .wmv binary files you have to add the /b to the

> filenames to keep them binary. Example I had 2 mp3 files by the same

> artist. Say it was GeorgeOrwell-I love you.mp3 and GeorgeOrwell-I

> hate you.mp3. You could go to the folder containing them and type

> copy geor*/b C:\newgeorge.mp3/b and it will combine all songs with

> that beginning into a new mp3 file named newgeorge.mp3 in your root

> directory.

 

Or, simpler:

 

copy A.mp3+B.mp3+C.mp3+D.mp3 result.mp3 /b

[Guest Panic]

Re: Command prompt confusion

 

"HeyBub" <heybub@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Panic wrote:

>> You can also use the copy command. Type in copy/? to get all the

>> options. For .mp3 or .wmv binary files you have to add the /b to the

>> filenames to keep them binary. Example I had 2 mp3 files by the same

>> artist. Say it was GeorgeOrwell-I love you.mp3 and GeorgeOrwell-I

>> hate you.mp3. You could go to the folder containing them and type

>> copy geor*/b C:\newgeorge.mp3/b and it will combine all songs with

>> that beginning into a new mp3 file named newgeorge.mp3 in your root

>> directory.

>

> Or, simpler:

>

> copy A.mp3+B.mp3+C.mp3+D.mp3 result.mp3 /b

Good addition. I had failed to show how to combine completely different

filenames. And you added an important item... the + you must place

between the filenames to use more than one separate filename input. And

it seems you must enter /b after each source filename to keep the binary

status. When I tried your illustration it wouldn't play. When I added /b

after each source file as well as the destination file it played.

 

When experimenting it helps to use the F3 key to reenter the last attempt so

you can edit it before trying a new variation. I also found it helps

prevent typos if you only type as much as necessary to distinguish the file,

then use * for the remainder. Example: I had a folder with mp3s listed as

01filename, 02filename, etc. With that I can use copy 01*/b+03*/b

result.mp3/b. That combines, copies, and plays.