[FFmpeg-user] How to create "Input #1", "Input #2" etc. in addition to "Input #0"?

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On Monday, September 28, 2020, 09:35:28 AM GMT+9, Carl Zwanzig <cpz at tuunq.com> wrote:

On 9/27/2020 5:27 PM, James Darnley wrote:
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If I understand the question-
there is a container holding multiple input streams and you want those 
streams to go into a stream-capable output container. Yes?

Or is this question of copying metadata/stream names to the output container?

Examples of commands you've tried along with the full output would clarify 
things.

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Thank you for the quick responses.

Let me give a much simplified example of what I hoped to achieve. I have two movie files that each contain a video stream and an audio stream: movie1.mp4 and movie2.mp4. I merge both into a single MKV container with ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i movie1.mp4 -i movie2.mp4 -map 0:v -map 0:a -map 1:v -map 1:a -c copy combined.mkv

At the end of the ffmpeg monitor output I get the following about the contents of the "combined.mkv":

Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (copy)
  Stream #1:0 -> #0:2 (copy)
  Stream #1:1 -> #0:3 (copy)


Now, my question is how to achieve the following mapping:

Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (copy)
  Stream #1:0 -> #1:0 (copy)
  Stream #1:1 -> #1:1 (copy)


It seems that the "-map" flag always adds a stream as a "#0:n". I would like to have "#1:0" and "#1:1" in the "combined.mkv" container. Is that possible?

Thank you.
-S.R.