I have several similarly-encoded .ts
video files that I would like to concatenate and encode into a single .mp4
file.
The .ts
files look like
Input #0, mpegts, from 'input1.ts':
Duration: 00:01:24.14, start: 0.066778, bitrate: 15941 kb/s
Program 1
Stream #0:0[0x44]: Video: h264 (High) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 59.94 fps, 59.94 tbr, 90k tbn, 119.88 tbc
Stream #0:1[0x45]: Audio: aac ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 251 kb/s
The output should be 640x480, 29.97fps video. (The .ts
files contain digitized old Hi8 camcorder video, digitized at a much-too-generous bitrate & resolution for the Hi8 video format.)
I can encode a single .ts
file like this:
$ ffmpeg -i input1.ts -c:v libx264 -vf scale=640:480 -aspect 4:3 -preset slow -crf 22 -r 29.97 output.mp4
What is the correct way to concatenate several .ts
files into a single .mp4
without creating a huge intermediate .ts
file?
This ffmpeg documentation presents three concatenation methods: filter, demuxer, and protocol. I think I want the "filter" flavor. However, their example of it is confusing.