First of all, I am new to all this. I am using MakeMKV and Handbrake to rip and convert to M4V files.
I ripped The Patriot Extended Cut last night and there were two files. When I played the MKV’s in VLC I realized the movie was broken into two files on the disc. How in the world do I handle that? I googled till my fingers bled last night and couldn’t figure it out.
Thanks!
Splitting a movie into two files on the same disc would be unusual. Make sure it isn’t two versions of the movie.
To combine MKVs:
Agreed. If it were two files (which means two titles on the disk), then a BD (or DVD, you didn’t specify) player would not play the two pieces seamlessly. Extended cut disks do tend to have both the extended and theatrical cuts on the same disk. Are you sure you didn’t just rip those two? The only instances I’ve seen of two files for the same movie is when the movie is actually split across 2 disks (like Lord of the Rings’ extended editions).
Otherwise the above provided thread has the instructions you need to join together two MKV files.
This movie is 2:55 long. When I play the second file it picks up right where the first one leaves off.
I had heard of that app when googling last night but the Mac wanted me to make a security exception so I wasn’t sure about it.
I installed and tried it without reading instructions. The output file size was the size of the two imput files but it seems to only contain/play up to the same time marker as the first file. Any ideas about that? After dinner I will start googling or trying to read more I guess.
Craig
FordGuy had already posted a link to a thread that explains how to use MKVToolnix to combine 2 videos
The How To document has the details, but it couldn’t be easier.
Screencaps from Windows 10. Mac should be similar.
Step 1:
Steps 2 & 3:
Step 4:
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