Connect compressed MKV parts without re encoding ?

[gil900]

Hello

if i will add in my script Several parts of compressed MKV files

like this:

part1 = FFmpegSource("part1.mkv")
part2 = FFmpegSource("part2.mkv")
part3 = FFmpegSource("part3.mkv")

return(part1++part2+part3)

then i will open the script in VirtualDubMod , select in the Video and audio "Direct Stream Copy"
and at the end i will save it as mkv file.

so the result will be that it will does not do anything except connect the files?
or it will make some encoding?

[Baldrick]

No. You must reconvert then.

Use instead mkvtoolnix to join your mkv files. In mkvmergegui add your first mkv, then append the rest, start muxing to make a new mkv.

And I'm moving you to our video editing section. This isn't any restoration.

[gil900]

Ok thanks ..
That really helped

[hello_hello]

Assuming it'll open an MKV as it would an AVI (VirtualDubMod's MKV support is very outdated) you can use it to join MKVs the same way it'll join AVIs. Open the first one, then use the File/Append menu to add the send and third etc, then use DirectStreamCopy for the video and save it as a new MKV.

MKVMergeGUI is no doubt the better choice though, as VirtualDubMod often chokes on MKVs.