Help creating automator workflow (mencoder)

Hello everyones.
I wonder if anybody want and could halep me with an Automator scirpt.
My relatives use to make lots of family video, then they ask me to merge them to make a single file.
Now, in order to achieve this, i use mencoder. The script is the following:
$ mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -idx -o outputfile.avi part1.avi part2.avi
So, I'd like to create a service that when I select two or more movie parts it asks me to create the output merged video.
Is it possible through automator?
Thank you in advance for the help.
Cheers!

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