splitting and joining avi files

I captured some old home videos from VHS on to my computer using my Adaptec Gamebridge 1400 (not recommended, will hopefully post about it later). I'd converted them to MPEG4 using mencoder and ffmpeg.

I had a file that ran too long....needed to chop off part. I loaded the file into vlc, figured out the time at which I needed to stop (1:35:32) and used "avisplit":

avisplit -i movie.avi -t 01:35:32.00

I also had a couple of files that needed to be one so I merged them using "avimerge":

avimerge -o outfile.avi -i infile1.avi infile2.avi

Note, the -i and files need to come last!

Both avisplit and avimerge appear to be part of the "transcode" package.