Using Handbrake to convert / combine videos from Samsung camcorder

I wanted to combine my snippets of video shot on our family vacation into one file for easy viewing on my mythtv frontend.

I tried to use mkvmerge, but it gave errors because of the heading / encodings.  so only the 1st video was visible when playing it back — the later files appended were blank.

I did a little testing with files converting them with handbrake re-encoding them and then it combined them nicely.  Files are also a little smaller after encoding too!
So here is the process.

1. Put all the files in one directory.
2. Open handbrake — Click Source button and choose the directory — it will scan the directory and list add all the files to the drop down.
3. Select a different directory for the out put and click add all to queue from the menu (Queue -> Add all to Queue )
4. Then open the queue and click start.

After they are all encoded, go into mkvmerge and click add to add the first file.  Then click append button and select other files.