1030Concatenating Videos with ffmpeg

Concatenating videos with the Quicktime Player requires unnecessary decoding/encoding, with takes time and computational resources.

Solution: Concatente Files von FFMPEG

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate

Using ffmpeg

  1. Create a list: mylist.txt

    file '/path/to/file1.mp4'
    file '/path/to/file2.mp4'
    file '/path/to/file3.mp4'
  2. Run ffmpeg ffmpeg -f concat -i mylist.txt -c copy output.mp4

Troubleshooting

[concat @ 0x7fc407904080] Unsafe file name '2008-08-05 21_38_08.mov' mylist.txt: Operation not permitted

Filenames should not have spaces, escape them with \.