NAME

       oggz-merge — Merge Ogg files together, interleaving pages in order of presentation time.

SYNOPSIS

       oggz-merge [-o filename  | --output filename ] filename ...

       oggz-merge [-h  | --help ]  [-v  | --version ]

Description

       oggz-merge  merges  Ogg  files  together, interleaving pages in order of presentation time.  It correctly
       interprets the granulepos timestamps of Ogg CELT, CMML, Dirac, FLAC,  Kate,  Opus,  PCM,  Speex,  Theora,
       Vorbis  and  VP8  bitstreams.   Run oggz-known-codecs(1) for a full list of codecs known by the installed
       version of oggz.

       For example, if you have an Ogg Theora video file, and its soundtrack stored separately as an  Ogg  Speex
       audio  file,  and  you  can  use  oggz-merge  to create a single Ogg file containing the video and audio,
       interleaved together in parallel.

       Similarly, using oggz-merge on a collection of Ogg Vorbis audio files will create a big Ogg file with all
       the songs in parallel, ie. interleaved for simultaneous playback. Such a file is proper Ogg, but not "Ogg
       Vorbis I" -- the Ogg Vorbis I specification defines an Ogg Vorbis file as an Ogg file containing only one
       Vorbis track at a time (ie. no parallel multiplexing).  Many  music  players  (which  use  libvorbisfile)
       aren't designed to play multitrack Ogg files.  In general however, video players, and anything built on a
       multimedia framework (like GStreamer, DirectShow etc.) will probably be able to handle such files.

       If  you  want  to  create  a  file containing some Ogg files sequenced one after another, then you should
       simply concatenate them together using cat. In Ogg this is called "chaining". If you  cat  Ogg  Vorbis  I
       audio files together, then the result will also be a compliant Ogg Vorbis file.

Options

       oggz-merge accepts the following options:

   Miscellaneous options
       -o filename, --output filename
                 Write output to the specified filename instead of printing it to standard output.

       -h, --help
                 Display usage information and exit.

       -v, --version
                 Output version information and exit.

EXAMPLES

       Merge pages of audio.oga and video.ogv:

              oggz merge -o output.ogv audio.oga video.ogv

AUTHOR

       Conrad Parker        September 21, 2004;

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2004 CSIRO Australia

SEE ALSO

       cat(1), oggz-rip(1), oggz-dump(1), oggz-diff(1), hogg(1)

                                                                                                   oggz-merge(1)