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  1. Guest
    This may sound a bit like a newbie question although I'm using ffmpegX for quite some time. Anyway this is the first time I have to join 2 Files. My problem is the following:
    - I have 2 mpg-files that I want to join into one.
    - In ffmpegX it seems to be very simple - So I'm selecting the two files under the tools section and
    - click on "join"
    - ffmpegX says that it finished the files, although I haven't declared any destination where to save the new file
    - thus there is no joined file

    So where is the so called "finished file" ?!?

    I also tried it with a destination in the "save as" input field but I get the same result: "Finished" but no file.

    Thanks for your help
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  2. Member
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    May 2003
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    Almere, Netherlands
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    Sometimes ffmpegX can't join or work with some files... I don't know what causes this, but I've been having trouble with it as well. But when you want to join 2 files... it will result in 1 file in the same dir as the first selected file. So if it isn't there, than it hasn't worked. The joining does take some time (1-2 maybe 3 minutes) so if it says Finished immediatly you can be certain that it failed How to make it work.. beats me.. hopefully major knows an answer to this 1
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  3. Copy and paste me the path of the two files you're try to join (from the "Browse" fields), this should help me track the problem.
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  4. Guest
    Hmm - you were right major4. I had a whitespace in one of the folder names. Should've found that out by myself. Anyway your reply helped me a lot - thanks!
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  5. Member
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    This is somewhat weird major never even mentioned white spaces in the path...
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  6. The problem was indeed spaces in the path of files to be joined. This should have been fixed in 0.0.7d.
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  7. What about the case where my computer name has a space in it? I can't change this, so does that mean I don't have this function for ever? I am using v. 07d.
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  8. The computer name is not included in file paths, so it doesn't matter. However the disk name is, but you can change it.
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  9. Guest
    Special characters like ()'s in the filename seem to break the join too. I had problems joining until I took out the ()'s in the filenames.
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  10. I changed folder names so I have no spaces, and it still doesn't work

    Any other characters that would screw it up?
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  11. Please post your pathname and terminal output.
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