[FFmpeg-user] How can I join video files?

[Peter B.]

Zitat von Nicolas George <nicolas.george at normalesup.org>:

> L'octidi 28 pluviôse, an CCXX, Peter B. a écrit :
>> But, as I assume that ffmpeg is able to remux containers, I also
>> assumed it would be possible to do remux (and possibly transcode)
>> several input files with matching audio/video codec into a new file.
>>
>> I've successfully been doing this with several thousands of files
>> (FFv1/PCM in AVI) with mencoder - so it's technically possible.
>
> This is indeed technically possible, and it should be simple enough to write
> using libavformat's API, but it is not currently possible with the ffmpeg
> command line tool.

But would it be possible to integrate it into FFmpeg at all, or would  
it be necessary to implement this in an external application, using  
libavformat's API?


> Patches welcome.

...if only I was a better programmer...


> There is a vague project of concat filters in lavfi, but it would only work
> with decoded audio and video.

You mean it couldn't copy the A/V data, but it would have to re-encode it?

Thanks,
Pb