[FFmpeg-user] concat issue

[John de la Garza]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:51:37AM +0000, Liam Condron-Farnos wrote:
> However, I would strongly recommend using the concat demuxer, as it avoids
> creating those intermediate files. Really, with recent ffmpeg you should
> only use the concat protocol if your input files are already in one of the
> formats that supports file-level concatenation (like mpeg, vob, or ts
> files).

I have read the docs, but don't still don't understand how the concat
demuxer will help me avoid creating intermediate files.

>From what I am understanding, it seems like I would still cut up the
file and concat it back.  The docs say to create a file with the
names of the files you want to concat.  Are those the intermediate
files?