How to join, split and create mp4, mov and 3gp files

Martin — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:37:16 +0000

A long timer reader asked in the forum if I knew of a program that would be able to join mp4 files. I was not able to give the answer immediately but after a short research I found a program called Yamb which is able to join, split and create mp4, mov and 3gp files. You do need the mpeg 4 converter mp4 box because Yamb uses it for the conversions. Yamb is mainly a gui for mp4 box, the hardcore users could simply use the command line to work with mp4 box, all others should better use Yamb.You

need to add the path to mp4 box in the settings before you proceed to use some of the options that yamb offers. You may choose the creation or edition tab to use Yamb afterwards. The creation tab lets you create mp4 and 3gp files by adding other movie files such as divx ones. Created files can be further customized by splitting the output files for instance.

More important is the edition tab which lets you split and join mp4, mov and 3gp file and convert subtitles to the right format. Joining mp4 files is as easy as splitting them. Drop the files that you want to join in the correct order into yamb and select the output file. Please note that the output file has to exist, otherwise Yamb will abort the process.

Just create a blank file with the mp4 extension and everything should work out fine. Joining mp4 files is a fast process, it took Yamb 13 seconds to join two 60 megabyte mp4 files together.

Tags: create-3gp, create-mp4, freeware, join-3gp, join-mov, join-mp4, merge, mov, mp4, mp4-box, split, yamb

Create Custom DVD`s with DVD Flick

Martin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:59:35 +0000

When I’m looking at my video collection I see different formats, file sizes, resolutions, bitrates, audio formats and codecs. It normally takes some time to create a DVD from this mess. What would you do if you wanted to create a DVD from various .mov, .avi and .mpg files ? Convert them, load them into a program that is able to create DVD`s and burn them afterwards ? How much time would that take, what would you say ?

DVD Flick is a powerful DVD authoring software which is able to automatically create a DVD from various video formats such as apple quicktime, divx, flash video and mpeg. There is no need to convert them into a DVD compliant format, just load them into DVD Flick and it will do the rest for you. All that needs to be done after DVD Flick finished generating the files is to burn them.

You should take a look at the projects settings before proceeding to generate the DVD. You may select a different target size such as CD, DVD-Ram or Mini-DVD, change the target format between PAL and NTSC and change the quality of the encoding process. A better quality or a second pass results in a longer generation time but also in a better video and audio quality.

You may select the audio format and bitrate and opt to generate a iso file instead of a video_ts folder. It is also possible to burn the new DVD right after the generation finishes.

The only thing that is really missing is the missing menu feature. There is no way to create a menu at this moment which means all files are played in a row which could get confusing if you have many small movies on a DVD.

Tags: avi, create-dvd, custom, dvd, dvd-flick, flv, mov, movie, mpg, video

gHacks technology news » mov

How to join, split and create mp4, mov and 3gp files

Related posts

Create Custom DVD`s with DVD Flick

Related posts