Vidmerger

A wrapper around FFmpeg which simplifies merging of multiple videos.

🙉 What is this exactly?

Vidmerger is a command-line-tool which uses ffmpeg to merge multiple video-files with the same file-extension into one file, for example running vidmerger . on mp4 files would create a merged video called output.mp4 🐣

Here is the usage help of vidmerger 🤗

A wrapper around ffmpeg which simplifies merging multiple videos 🎞 Everything in between the first - till the fill extension of the input files will be used as chapter titles 📖. Usage: vidmerger [OPTIONS] <TARGET_DIR> Arguments: <TARGET_DIR> Sets the input file to use

Options: -f, --format <format> Specifies which formats should be merged individually, the default is 👉 3g2,3gp,aac,ac3,alac,amr,ape,au,avi,awb,dts,f4a,f4b,f4p,f4v,flac,flv,m4a,m4b,m4p,m4r,m4v,mkv,mov,mp2,mp3,mp4,mpeg,mpg,oga,ogg,ogm,ogv,ogx,opus,pcm,spx,wav,webm,wma,wmv --fps <fps> Generates videos inside a temporary folder with this fps value and merges them --shutdown For doing a shutdown at the end (needs sudo) --skip-fps-changer Skips the fps changer -y, --yes Skips confirmation of merge order --verbose Prints detailed logs -h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version

%%{init: {'themeVariables': { 'mainBkg': 'white', 'nodeBorder': 'black' }}}%%
graph LR;
VideoA((Video_A))-->Vidmerger;
VideoB((Video_B))-->Vidmerger;
Vidmerger-->|no fps mismatch detected| Merger;
Vidmerger-->FPS_Changer-->Merger;
Merger-->VideoA+Band_chapters;

| Feature | Description | | :---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Selector | Iterates through this list of file endings, selects all files which matches with the current file ending except ones which start with a dot. The list can be overwritten by --format or -f, example: --format mp4,mkv. | | FPS_Changer | After detecting not matching fps values, it scales all the higher fps videos down to the lowest detecting fps value. Can be skipped by --skip-fps-changer. The desired fps value can be set by --fps, example: --fps 23.976. | | Merger | Finally, it merges the videos and adds chapters. Chapter titles are automatically extracted from the input file names — specifically, the text between the first dash and the file extension. Example: Video_A - Chapter 1.mp4. |

✨ Installing / Getting started

You can install it on all the three major operating systems 🤗

X64

| Platform | Packager | Command | | :-------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 🍎 MacOS | 🍺 Homwbrew | brew tap tgotwig/vidmerger
brew install vidmerger | | 🐧 Linux | 🍺 Homwbrew | brew tap tgotwig/linux-vidmerger
brew install vidmerger | | 🐧 Linux | 🍺 CURL | sudo curl -L https://github.com/TGotwig/vidmerger/releases/latest/download/vidmerger-linux.tar.gz -o /tmp/vidmerger-linux.tar.gz && sudo tar -xzvf /tmp/vidmerger-linux.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin | | 🏳️‍🌈 Windows | 🍫 Chocolatey | choco install ffmpeg # prerequisite
choco install vidmerger |

ARM64

| Platform | Packager | Command | | :------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 🍎 MacOS | 🍺 Homwbrew | brew tap tgotwig/vidmerger
brew install vidmerger | | 🐧 Linux | 🍺 CURL | sudo curl -L https://github.com/tgotwig/vidmerger/releases/download/0.4.0/vidmerger-linux-arm64.tar.gz -o /tmp/vidmerger-linux-arm64.tar.gz && sudo tar -xzvf /tmp/vidmerger-linux-arm64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin |

Docker (X64 & ARM64)

You can also use Docker to run vidmerger without installing anything except Docker, hosted on Dockerhub 🐳

docker container run -it -v <PATH-TO-YOUR-VIDEOS>:/data tgotwig/vidmerger

Examples with Bash:

docker container run tgotwig/vidmerger --help
docker container run tgotwig/vidmerger --version
docker container run -it -v ./data/call_merger:/data tgotwig/vidmerger