dumb computing multimedia question

I have a series of mpeg clips on my hard drive that I want to play in sequence instead of opening
each one and viewing it and closing it again.

How do I string these together in one playlist or one file or whatever?

Thanks in advance.

Brian

Doesn't Windows Media Player work for that? Just add the files into the playlist.

Winamp allows you to do the same thing. I prefer Winamp over Media Player.

Winamp is wonderful, but it's not very good for video clips. The plugins I've found are half-baked at best. Maybe he's doing audio, but I always think video when I see "mpeg clip".

ZoomPlayer is a pretty sweet program for video playing though. Uses DirectShow filters and ACM codecs to play files (that is, if Windows Media Player can handle it, ZoomPlayer can too), but it's a lot more lightweight the WMP 7/8 and a lot more powerful to boot.

My bad...for whatever reason, I was thinking mp3's. My apologies. :)

In that case, I'm sure that most would favor Winamp ...

"it really whips the llama's ass!" or is it lama? :)

It's "llama"

Little tip: Open up Winamp, and type this at the main window

<N><U><L><ESC><L><ESC><S><O><F><T>

Note that you don't actually type the <'s and the >'s - those just indicate separate key presses. So it's NULLSOFT with 2 esc's in there after the L's ('cause that'll Load a file, hence the L).

make sure you're using the default Winamp skin for it. I don't know if this still works - I haven't used Winamp in years. But it used to, and it was cute :)

Do the same thing to get it back.

As for mp3 playing, I gotta give mad props to Apple for iTunes. Apple's getting <b>everything</b> right these days. You should go buy an old iMac and use it. God. I used to hate Apple. Now I love them. Wow. Anyway, iTunes is amazing for mp3s. Multiple playlists at once, etc. It's great.

[edit - SHIT! Should be fixed now. ]

hmmm ... i was imagining, maybe, a Tibetan monk doing penance. :)

Originally posted by sycamore
My bad...for whatever reason, I was thinking mp3's. My apologies. :)

No prob. 'course we still don't know what he's doing yet, so it might be a combination of both -- so we'd both be wrong. :) and right too.

As for video, I know you could do it with iMovie, but I'm guessing you don't have a Macintosh, do you?

If you really need it done and can't find something to do it, I might be able to pimp it out on one of my boxes.

I have a series of MPEG video files each two minutes in length that need to go together
to make one long video file. I haven't been able to get WMP to add to the playlist... all it
does is make a new playlist for each clip, annoying me to no end.

I managed to get alll the files into one place but now I want to view the whole deal at
once like a real movie, not an emailed clip sequence.
I'm sure that WMP will do what I want it to do but I need the steps to perform to make it
all happen.

Thanks again

Brian

imovie

But then, you'd have to get a Mac, and all Windows users know ... they suck ... right? :)

Macs rock, jsut so firgging expecsive. BTW: has macworld finished? I NEED them to release new laptops and G5s!

Wait for MacWorld Tokyo & New York.

No one here actually answered my question.

Does this mean that no one can, or no one remembers the question?

Mac people go back to your caves. I am stuck running Win 98.

Brian

BrianR: All you hafta do is drag n' drop the files from Windows Explorer into the little playlist window in WMP. From there you can drag them up and down into whatever order you want.

Works for me. *shrugs*

Doesn't Windows Media Player do what you want to do?

If it does, then the first reply to your question did, in fact, answer your question.

I'll try that, thanks. I always forget about drag and drop between programs.

Update tomorrow after I get home.

Brian

Cool, that should work.

I too thought it was weird you couldn't add files to the playlist like you open files. Stupid Microsoft.

Can't comment on it, having never used it, but here is a link to something that might do what you want:

Just Another Splitter

Other than that, start here, and get digging :)

Okay. I xferred all the clips to my HD and made a useful playlist from them.

Now how do I make one big video from the fragments?

Do I have to use one of those moviemakers the Apple folks are bragging about or what?