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Is there a (at best free) solution to merge AVI-Files in Mac OS X Lion without the need to recode them? (Until Snow Leopard I used D-Vision 3, which won't run on Lion because it's PPC.)

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By "merge", do you mean combine in sequence? – Mechanical snail Aug 3 '11 at 20:19
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Also, we need to know the video format (motion JPEG? H.264?) to know whether this is possible. – Mechanical snail Aug 3 '11 at 20:19
@Mechanical: Yes, by merge I mean join them seamlessly in sequence. We can take as granted, that all files share the same framerate, codec and resolution. Used codec is mainly following the MPEG-4 standard such as Xvid. In fact it is possible as it was before Lion as well as it is with Windows. I'm looking for a tool that also runs on Lion. – Chris Aug 3 '11 at 22:43
In general, ffmpeg the tool for this. – Mechanical snail Aug 3 '11 at 22:49
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I started the bounty only because @w00t's answer is godsend — it probably saved me few $/€'s worth of actual money; and it would had saved a lot of time & effort if I just had stumbled on it earlier… – koiyu Aug 31 '11 at 12:45
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To make your copy of avidemux2.app work, simply open the application bundle (show package contents in finder) and remove the files libxml.2.dylib and libiconv.2.dylib from the Contents/Resources/lib folder.

This will make avidemux2 use the versions that ship with Lion and which seem to work just fine.

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Thanks, good information. Did not know I could delete them instead of replacing them. – Chris Aug 13 '11 at 22:49
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Avidemux is an open source tool for editing/combining videos, and there is a Mac port:

http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

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Thanks. Avidemux does not support Lion at the moment. Avidemux uses a lion-incompatible version of the library libiconv.2.dylib. I got it working by replacing the library with a patched version from GnuCash: bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=192432 – Chris Aug 5 '11 at 10:44
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Try this Lion-compatible Version of D-Vision 3: D-Vision 3 (Intel)

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Where did you get this version from? I'm not that comfortable with downloading programs from unknown sources. – Chris Aug 12 '11 at 17:49
Actually the author's site has a universal binary: objectifmac.com/dvision.php – w00t Aug 13 '11 at 15:01
@w00t: You're right. In fact the D-Vision main app works on Lion, while joining AVIs with D-Vision does not. You can start it, select the tool to join AVIs, select your AVI-files and start the task. I checked "delete source files when task is finished" (as always) and then I got the Rosetta-error and also lost my source-files. – Chris Aug 13 '11 at 22:48
@Chris: actually I just copied the universal-binary-files from the newest D-Vision 4 beta into the old D-Vision 3 App-Bundle. – fheusel Aug 18 '11 at 7:31
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  1. Download newest version of ffmpegX.
  2. Right click “Show Package Contents”
  3. Copy avimerge located in Contents > Resources > avimerge.
  4. Paste the avimerge file in the same location within D-Vision.app file

D-Vision will then work a treat in Lion OSX.

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D-Vision will work with OS X Lion. Just use mencoder and not the default avimerge.

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