Joining Multiple Video files in Windows

Many times you get multiple files in small chunks of the same video clip or movie. So what do you do? Ofcourse you play the files in your media player.

Then what's the problem? The player disturbs the flow of the movie after each file. Even if the files are properly arranged in the list of the player, there will always be a small pause. What's more annoying is the number of files required for a single movie.

Following 3 tricks helps us to combine multiple video files (mpg files only, for other formats see the second trick).

Trick 1:
1. Open a blank text file.
2. Type copy  /b  *.mpg  new.mpg
3. Save the file with a .bat extension. [ example: join.bat ]
4. Now Copy and Paste this join.bat file in a folder which contains more than one mpg files.
5. Double click the join.bat file.

A combined file named new.mpg is created from all the mpg files in the folder.

Note: This trick don't work with avi and wmv file formats. However, you can try and check if this works for other file formats.


Trick 2:
1. Add all the small mpg files into a zip file. This can be done using winzip.
2. The files must be zipped without any compression.
3. Arrange the order of the files in the zip.
4. Rename the zip file as an mpg file.
5. That's it! Click and enjoy the movie.

This trick works very well with mpg files. You can try this with other file formats.


Trick 3:
1. Click Start --> Run.
2. Type cmd and press Enter. This will open the command prompt.
3. In the command prompt, type: copy  /b  E:\clip1.mpg + E:\clip2.mpg  E:\new.mpg
where clip1.mpg and clip2.mpg are the video files to join and new.mpg is the resultant combined file.

4. You can specify any number of files to join. Notice that entire file path is typed in the above command.
5. Press enter and the files will be joined.