How to concatenate two MP4 files using FFmpeg?

Question

I\'m trying to concatenate two mp4 files using ffmpeg. I need this to be an automatic process hence why I chose ffmpeg. I\'m converting the two files into .ts files and th

Answer 1

this worked for me (on windows)

ffmpeg -i "concat:input1|input2" -codec copy output

an example...

ffmpeg -i "concat:01.mp4|02.mp4" -codec copy output.mp4

Python

Using some python code to do it with as many mp4 there are in a folder (install python from python.org, copy and paste and save this code into a file called mp4.py and run it from the cmd opened in the folder with python mp4.py and all the mp4 in the folder will be concatenated)

import glob
import os

stringa = ""
for f in glob.glob("*.mp4"):
    stringa += f + "|"
os.system("ffmpeg -i \"concat:" + stringa + "\" -codec copy output.mp4")

Version 2 with Python

Taken from my post on my blog, this is how I do it in python:

import os
import glob

def concatenate():
    stringa = "ffmpeg -i \"concat:"
    elenco_video = glob.glob("*.mp4")
    elenco_file_temp = []
    for f in elenco_video:
        file = "temp" + str(elenco_video.index(f) + 1) + ".ts"
        os.system("ffmpeg -i " + f + " -c copy -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb -f mpegts " + file)
        elenco_file_temp.append(file)
    print(elenco_file_temp)
    for f in elenco_file_temp:
        stringa += f
        if elenco_file_temp.index(f) != len(elenco_file_temp)-1:
            stringa += "|"
        else:
            stringa += "\" -c copy  -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc output.mp4"
    print(stringa)
    os.system(stringa)

concatenate()