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I'm writing a server and I have to play commercials on demand, so I'm trying to avoid re encoding video.

I assume that video containers have headers and meta data, so it would not be possible.

Is there a format (preferably compressed) that is proper to stream one video after the other without re encode or stopping the streaming? Concatenable in a binary sense, and still playable.

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    Welcome! If you haven't already, look at HLS and MPEG DASH for widely adopted methods of solving your problem.
    – Michael Liebman
    Feb 20, 2020 at 2:04
  • I really don't know much about video formats, but this seems exactlty what I'm looking for, allied with fragmentation might do the trick, tyvm.
    – user27704
    Feb 20, 2020 at 2:44
  • For server applications and automated, scripted concatenation and encoding, I recommend you take a look at ffmpeg.
    – Florian Claaßen
    Feb 20, 2020 at 9:47
  • I did it! Can I post my solution here as an anwswer? (It has some c# code)
    – user27704
    Feb 21, 2020 at 18:57

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