Hi,

Does anyone know if - without recode - adding a video segment, prepared aside, to a native camcorder video * is possible ?

* The main video that I want to stream copy was shot by a "Sanyo Xacti CG9" camcorder : Sanyo's AVC H.264 + AAC...

All I want is to add credits at the beginning (or end) of the video, without recoding the whole movie. Of course, I made the credits video segment the same image size and same fps. But (as expected...) that's not enough.

I suppose (?) I would need to know the fine technical encoding details of the "Sanyo Xacti CG9" (hardware) encoded output. And if so, how to find or display such information ? "Media Info" does not analyze deeply enough in that case.



In fact, I could do it thru a rather complicated series of demux + mux with "Mkv Toolnix" & "MKVExtractGUI2". OK, why not... But then, the result is an MKV video that reads alright (with VLC, SM Player, Media Player Classic...) as long as the user does not drag the cursor of his player.

If he does, he better not drag the cursor from the beginning : the credits... straight to the main and not re-encoded part of the flick. In that case, that whole section does not display anymore : grey (garbled), instead, as if the necessary codec was not here anymore...

In other words, with such a film, that consists of "x264 homemade credits" + (appended) Xacti native main movie, I can only watch the whole thing, from beginning to end OK...

... but never drag the cursor... which action seems not to let enough time to the player to "understand" or switch to a different encoding recognition... Only the audio (AAC) won't suffer from dragging the cursor.

So, has anyone ever tried that and found a solution ?

Thanks
B.