[FFmpeg-user] Concatenation of mpg files

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Francois Visagie <francois.visagie <at> gmail.com> writes:

> > ffmpeg -loop 1 -r 1 -i image.png -q:v 0 -r 29.97 -t 10 0.mpg

> Do I understand correctly that you're using ffmpeg to 
> create individual mpg files from images, and then you 
> want to concatenate them?

> If so, each individual file will have its own header 
> information,

Program streams do not have headers.

> and the first's header information won't reflect the 
> size/playing time of them all.

> Therefore a straight-forward binary concatenation of 
> the mpg files won't work for most players.

I don't think this is correct (most players handle 
timestamp resets well - they have to if they want 
to be DVD-compatible - FFmpeg admittedly has 
problems), but in any case, it is not the main 
problem: -qscale 0 produces large frames and you 
have to tell the mpeg muxer about this (ffmpeg 
correctly warns that the output file may be 
unplayable).

Carl Eugen