Any way to concatenate a bunch of mpeg files?

bosskong · Post by **bosskong** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:39 pm

I have a few hundred events saved from zoneminder as mpeg files. I'd like to combine them all into one long mpeg file (ordered by date). Does anyone have any ideas for an easy way to do this? I know I could load them up in Premiere or some other video editing program, but it seems like it would take forever. Any other ideas?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:39 pm

you can automate mpeg creation with a filter. I have never done this as mpeg to me is useless but it can be done

bosskong · Post by **bosskong** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:27 pm

Maybe I'm not understanding what you're trying to tell me, but I've already saved these events as mpeg files. What I'm trying to do now is to combine all these individual events (some from last week, some from last month, etc) into one long mpeg file.

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:29 pm

I don't know of a way myself, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was a way to stream them all together using ffmpeg. You might have toi experiment a bit to see. There isn't a way in ZM as such.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:01 pm

Oh i see. Sorry no i dont know either. It is possible and it was in zm4ms a while ago (since removed) that joined events together but that needs the original jpegs. Plus naviagting 12hr mpegs would take a while!

bosskong · Post by **bosskong** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:53 pm

Heh, problem solved. I just used "copy /b event*.mpg allevents.mpg" in a DOS window and it worked. The headers and timestamps might not be correct, but hey, it works fine for me...