Re: [FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2023-01-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.01.23 um 11:34 schrieb pehache: Le 01/01/2023 à 19:21, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 01.01.23 um 19:16 schrieb pehache: Couldn't I, or anyone else, just edit the license check code out then? Indeed yes in the case of a free software (but no in the case of MakeMKV) when the source

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2023-01-02 Thread pehache
Le 01/01/2023 à 19:21, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 01.01.23 um 19:16 schrieb pehache: Couldn't I, or anyone else, just edit the license check code out then? Indeed yes in the case of a free software (but no in the case of MakeMKV) when the source code is available *you can* and the only

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2023-01-01 Thread Dan Harkless
On 1/1/2023 10:16 AM, pehache wrote: Le 03/12/2022 à 15:42, David Niklas a écrit : > On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 11:49:04 -0800 > Dan Harkless wrote: >> MakeMKV is in a semi-permanent Beta state, so you need to periodically >> download new license keys from: >> >>    

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2023-01-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 01.01.23 um 19:16 schrieb pehache: Couldn't I, or anyone else, just edit the license check code out then? Indeed yes in the case of a free software (but no in the case of MakeMKV) when the source code is available *you can* and the only thing you mustn't do is distiribute the results

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2023-01-01 Thread pehache
Le 03/12/2022 à 15:42, David Niklas a écrit : On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 11:49:04 -0800 Dan Harkless wrote: MakeMKV is in a semi-permanent Beta state, so you need to periodically download new license keys from:     https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1053 but aside from that, it's

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2023-01-01 Thread pehache
Le 02/12/2022 à 13:36, MyCraigs List via ffmpeg-user a écrit : I'm running Debian 11. I use the command line "cat" to concatenate videos of all the same quality together.  All VOB files are cat'd together and none others.  The second bunch of videos I cat together are from a Sony video camera

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2022-12-03 Thread David Niklas
On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 11:49:04 -0800 Dan Harkless wrote: > MakeMKV is in a semi-permanent Beta state, so you need to periodically > download new license keys from: > >     https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1053 > > but aside from that, it's easy to use, and is free and open-source.

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2022-12-03 Thread Dan Harkless
On 12/3/2022 6:03 AM, MyCraigs List via ffmpeg-user wrote: makeMkV is working pretty well.  It certainly is going to save a lot of time in taking the old DVDs and separating them into titles. I've been suspicious of the name Matroska as I thought it was a format not worth considering.

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2022-12-03 Thread MyCraigs List via ffmpeg-user
makeMkV is working pretty well.  It certainly is going to save a lot of time in taking the old DVDs and separating them into titles. I've been suspicious of the name Matroska as I thought it was a format not worth considering. Hopefully, all will work out. Thanks, Craig On Friday, December

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2022-12-02 Thread Dan Harkless
On 12/2/2022 11:17 AM, MyCraigs List via ffmpeg-user wrote: Dan, Thanks for the reply.  They are family videos some of which were made with a (I think) "tape eating" Panasonic and then later a Sony mini-DV tape video camera(s).  Now I use a Sony video camera that records in MTS to an sd

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2022-12-02 Thread MyCraigs List via ffmpeg-user
Dan, Thanks for the reply.  They are family videos some of which were made with a (I think) "tape eating" Panasonic and then later a Sony mini-DV tape video camera(s).  Now I use a Sony video camera that records in MTS to an sd chip.  I think the tape cameras produced AVI files (I think...but

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2022-12-02 Thread Dan Harkless
On 12/2/2022 4:36 AM, MyCraigs List via ffmpeg-user wrote: I'm running Debian 11. I use the command line "cat" to concatenate videos of all the same quality together.  All VOB files are cat'd together and none others.  The second bunch of videos I cat together are from a Sony video camera and

[FFmpeg-user] Does "cat" degrade video quality?

2022-12-02 Thread MyCraigs List via ffmpeg-user
I'm running Debian 11. I use the command line "cat" to concatenate videos of all the same quality together.  All VOB files are cat'd together and none others.  The second bunch of videos I cat together are from a Sony video camera and are "MTS" files.  That's to say I do not cat VOB and MTS