[FFmpeg-devel] [Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] FAQ entry for videojoining

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:59:33PM +0200, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> V?ctor Paesa wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:19:36PM +0200, V?ctor Paesa wrote:
> >>>> Thanks for noticing, here is attached a second attempt.
> >>> I don't really use ffmpeg the command line tool, but aren't there other
> >>> ways of doing this directly instead of transcoding to MPEG and then
> >>> using cat?
> >> There are other ways using container specific tools (AsfBin, avijoin,
> >> ogmcat),
> >> but using ffmpeg I only know of two more other ways:
> >> a) using an Avisynth script as input or
> >> b) the unapproved pip vhook.
> >>
> >> These ways looked a bit out of topic to me, but I may reference them in
> >> the patch if are of interest.
> > 
> > ping ...
> > 
> > Regards,
> > V?ctor
> > 
> > P.S. By the way, video concatenation is again a popular topic
> > at ffmpeg-user.
> 
> And if you know the rationale for MPEG4 *not* being good for 
> concatenation, please add that too in that patch!

MPEG4-ES is fine for concatenation
MPEG4-ES in MPEG-PS is also fine
anything in .mp4 is a extreemly bad idea for concatenation

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