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Dieter.Soltau
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 Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 4:50 pm Post subject: tool to *merge* video - not convert.. |
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hi folx,
i am looking for a simple tool to *merge* videoclips. all are same size and quality. it could either be commandline, KDE/GTK or even win7 (that i run in vbox).
a really nice tool is *avidemux* - that does its job perfectly.. just merging the clips and doing a copy to disk.. but i can not select *multiple* files to append. adding single files only is a real PIA..
so, anyone has a solution to this problem? |
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avx
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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Avidemux should work, just drag all files into the window or use the CLI. Alternatively, mencoder (from mplayer package) and ffmpeg can do it, too.
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salahx
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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Actually several years i created a shell script to do exactly that. It needs ffmpeg and mplayer.
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#!/bin/bash
cleanup()
{
kill `ps --ppid $$ -o pid --no-header` > /dev/null 2>&1
find -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type p -delete
}
trap cleanup 0
declare -a INPUTFILES
declare -a INPUT_VIDEO_HEIGHT
declare -a INPUT_VIDEO_WIDTH
declare -a INPUT_VIDEO_FPS
declare -a INPUT_AUDIO_RATE
declare -a INPUT_AUDIO_NCH
declare -i INPUTCOUNT=0
while getopts :i: MYOPTS
do
case $MYOPTS in
i) if [ -z "$INPUTTRAP" ]
then
INPUTFILES[${INPUTCOUNT}]="${OPTARG}"
(( INPUTCOUNT++ ))
else
echo "Error: All input files must procede ffmpeg options"
exit 1
fi
;;
:) echo "Error: -i requires an argument"
exit;
;;
\?) INPUTTRAP=1
;;
esac
done
if [ "$INPUTCOUNT" -le 0 ]
then
echo "Error: You must specificy at least 1 input file!"
exit 1
fi
shift $(expr "$INPUTCOUNT" \* 2 )
for ((I = 0; I < "$INPUTCOUNT"; I++))
do
while read MPLAYERIDENTIFY
do
case "${MPLAYERIDENTIFY/%=*/}" in
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT) INPUT_VIDEO_HEIGHT[${I}]="${MPLAYERIDENTIFY/#*=/}" ;;
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH) INPUT_VIDEO_WIDTH[${I}]="${MPLAYERIDENTIFY/#*=/}" ;;
ID_VIDEO_FPS) INPUT_VIDEO_FPS[${I}]="${MPLAYERIDENTIFY/#*=/}" ;;
ID_AUDIO_RATE) INPUT_AUDIO_RATE[${I}]="${MPLAYERIDENTIFY/#*=/}" ;;
ID_AUDIO_NCH) INPUT_AUDIO_NCH[${I}]="${MPLAYERIDENTIFY/#*=/}" ;;
esac
done < <(mplayer -identify -frames 0 "${INPUTFILES[${I}]}" 2> /dev/null)
done
{
for ((I = 0; I < "$INPUTCOUNT"; I++))
do
mkfifo "${INPUTFILES[${I}]}".{yuv,pcm}
ffmpeg -i "${INPUTFILES[${I}]}" -an -f rawvideo - > "${INPUTFILES[${I}]}.yuv" &
ffmpeg -i "${INPUTFILES[${I}]}" -vn -f s16le -acodec pcm_s16le \
-ac "${INPUT_AUDIO_NCH[${I}]}" -ar "${INPUT_AUDIO_RATE[${I}]}" - > "${INPUTFILES[${I}]}.pcm" &
done
mkfifo video.yuv
mkfifo audio.pcm
cat "${INPUTFILES[@]/%/.yuv}" > video.yuv &
cat "${INPUTFILES[@]/%/.pcm}" > audio.pcm &
} 0</dev/null 1>/dev/null 2>&1
ffmpeg -f rawvideo -r "${INPUT_VIDEO_FPS[0]}" -s "${INPUT_VIDEO_WIDTH[0]}"x"${INPUT_VIDEO_HEIGHT[0]}" -pix_fmt yuv420p -i video.yuv \
-f s16le -acodec pcm_s16le -ac "${INPUT_AUDIO_NCH[0]}" -ar "${INPUT_AUDIO_RATE[0]}" -i audio.pcm \
"$@"
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To use it, do something like "ffmpeg-conat.sh" -i file1 -i file2 -i file3 ... and the usual ffmpeg options after the input files. So, for example:
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./ffmpeg-concat.sh i "9/11 2000 AND FUN - Starring James Woods - CD1.avi" -i "9/11 2000 AND FUN - Starring James Woods - CD2.avi" -target ntsc-dvd -aspect 16:9 -y "9/11 2000 AND FUN - Starring James Woods.mpg"
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Dieter.Soltau
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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| avx wrote: | | Avidemux should work, just drag all files into the window or use the CLI. Alternatively, mencoder (from mplayer package) and ffmpeg can do it, too. |
duh! looks like avidemux actuallx does that.. however.. those movies are done with a canon powershot, and avidemux complains everytime that the B field is preference.. and if i would like to fix that. so i have to deny this for every single clip.. hmm.. |
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Dieter.Soltau
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| salahx wrote: |
To use it, do something like "ffmpeg-conat.sh" -i file1 -i file2 -i file3 ... and the usual ffmpeg options after the input files. So, for example:
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./ffmpeg-concat.sh i "9/11 2000 AND FUN - Starring James Woods - CD1.avi" -i "9/11 2000 AND FUN - Starring James Woods - CD2.avi" -target ntsc-dvd -aspect 16:9 -y "9/11 2000 AND FUN - Starring James Woods.mpg"
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err.. sometimes there are about 64 clips! and i do not want to transcode or convert, just MERGE the files, hm.. nixe script tho  |
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avx
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | #!/bin/bash
INPUTS=""
for i in ${@} ; do INPUTS+="-i ${i} " ; done
ffmpeg ${INPUTS} -acodec copy -vcodec copy output.file |
Call it with `script.sh *.avi`, provided the files follow a logical naming scheme, f.e. 000.avi ... 099.avi.
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Dieter.Soltau
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| avx wrote: | | Code: | #!/bin/bash
INPUTS=""
for i in ${@} ; do INPUTS+="-i ${i} " ; done
ffmpeg ${INPUTS} -acodec copy -vcodec copy output.file |
Call it with `script.sh *.avi`, provided the files follow a logical naming scheme, f.e. 000.avi ... 099.avi. |
that looks pretty slick.. they are blabla1671.mov to blabla1972.mov - inbetween some are missing, hope that doesnt matter, but i get your drift.. will try asap, thx
bash FTW |
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Dieter.Soltau
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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hmm..
| Code: | [NULL @ 0x30c1b20] Unable to find a suitable output format for 'output.file'
output.file: Invalid argument |
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avx
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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Sure, you need to set it to 'output.avi' or 'output.mpg' or whatever container you have.
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Dieter.Soltau
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| avx wrote: | | Sure, you need to set it to 'output.avi' or 'output.mpg' or whatever container you have. |
i did, but then only the first file is exported.. ?? i set it to "new.mov"
however, i see on the screen it is reading in all files fine.. |
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avx
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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Strange, but ok. You can try [url=http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/How%20to%20concatenate%20(join,%20merge)%20media%20files]this script[/url] - it's pretty well documented, just need to make some changes.
If you don't need to keep the container as .mov, you could do it easily with `mkvmerge`(cli) or `mmg`, both from media-video/mkvtoolnix.
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Dieter.Soltau
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| avx wrote: | Strange, but ok. You can try [url=http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/How%20to%20concatenate%20(join,%20merge)%20media%20files]this script[/url] - it's pretty well documented, just need to make some changes.
If you don't need to keep the container as .mov, you could do it easily with `mkvmerge`(cli) or `mmg`, both from media-video/mkvtoolnix. |
above link pls put in .. totaly broken.
mkvmerge i did, gives warnings, and results in no output neither with vlc nor dragon player..
anyway, i would love to keep the format it was in.. why bother with containers, hmm..
it is just supposed to be a backup of my sourcemovie(s) - and i dislike to have that many files in my folders..... |
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salahx
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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By "merge" do you mean concatenate them together? If so the transcoding step is generally unavoidable - most formats are not concatenatable, they have converted to a format that is (like raw yuv/pcm), cat'd together then re-encoded. The decoding is loseless but hte re-encoding is lossy if the original format was.
You can still use the script even with 64 movies fairly easily:
| Code: | | ./ffmpeg-concat "-i file00"{00..63}.avi |
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Just in case it's still of any use: How to join together several Flash video (flv) files.
It discusses several GUI tools and command line techniques with examples. Despite the title, they do not only apply to Flash video.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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My video recorder records television programmes to FAT filesystem and splits files every 2G
I join them back together using ffmpeg using the concat syntax. also reencode to x264 but I guess it should work with copy codecs.
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inputs=`echo *.ts | sed -e "s@ @|@g"`
ffmpeg -i concat:"$inputs" -map 0:v -map 0:a -threads 2 -vf yadif=0:-1:1 -vcodec libx264 -vpre fast -crf 22 -nr 300 -c:a libvorbis -aq 4 -async 1024 -y "$TARGET"/"$block".mkv
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if the source format is a pure stream you could also just cat a b c > abc |
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