Merging multiple (more than two) videos on Ubuntu

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Dhruv Singal picture Dhruv Singal · Jun 16, 2015 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

I want to merge videos in batch size of twenty (20) each. I'm running a Linux machine. The videos are in mp4 format and moderate quality. Some even have the audio stream missing. So far I've tried ffmpeg, mencoder, cvlc/vlc and MP4Box. I want to write a command line script to achieve this, since I'm doing batch processing.

The main issue is that some of the solutions I tried work well for two videos, some work well for videos with audio stream and yet others work well for some other subset of my video set. However, I have not been able to find a comprehensive solution for this task.

Answer

LysanderM picture LysanderM · Jun 17, 2020

If ffmpeg parameter usage seems complex and causes fear, just like it did to me, another alternative is mkvmerge.

For installation instructions, follow >> MKVToolNix

mkvmerge -o /path/to/file/output_file.mkv /path/to/file/01.mp4 \+ /path/to/file/02.mp4 \+ /path/to/file/03.mp4 \+ ...

PS: I had no chance to try this on different formatted media types.

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