Commit 0f8f9248 authored by Nicolas George's avatar Nicolas George

faq: suggest the concat filter.

parent 2d6f442c
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@anchor{How can I concatenate video files}
@section How can I concatenate video files?
There are several solutions, depending on the exact circumstances.
@subsection Concatenating using filters
FFmpeg has a @url{http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#concat-1, @code{concat}}
filter designed specifically for that, with examples in the documentation.
@subsection Concatenating at the file level
A few multimedia containers (MPEG-1, MPEG-2 PS, DV) allow to concatenate
video by merely concatenating the files them.
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ffmpeg -f mpeg -i - -qscale:v 2 -c:v mpeg4 -acodec libmp3lame -q:a 4 output.avi
@end example
@subsection Concatenating using raw audio and video
Similarly, the yuv4mpegpipe format, and the raw video, raw audio codecs also
allow concatenation, and the transcoding step is almost lossless.
When using multiple yuv4mpegpipe(s), the first line needs to be discarded
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