[mythtv-users] Little gems on MythTV wiki

[Christopher Meredith]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:46 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:41:05AM -0600, Brent Bolin wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Christopher Meredith
>> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Christopher Meredith
>> >> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>> Ran across this info -
> [deletia]
>> >> Does "Also, you should use either the mp4 or mkv containers for H264"
>> >> make a quality difference?
>> >
>> > None at all. But modern container formats are more efficient and
>> > introduce greater possibilities. At least Matroska allows multiple
>> > streams, embedded subtitles, chapters, attachments, etc. It can also
>> > reduce confusion (such as here) where you're working with data that is
>> > not typically found in a .mpg file.
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>> Thanks for your quick reply.  Can you give me the cli syntax to join 2
>> mp4 video files together.  There are many arguments for this command.
>
> ...yes. That would be a handy one. I have found some fan produced videos
> where they thought it would be a good idea to split the show into multiple
> pieces. I can't really fathom why they thought it was a good idea.

Sorry. After all that, I didn't even answer the question. For mp4 files:

MP4Box -cat file1.mp4 -cat file2.mp4 -cat file3.mp4 CompleteFile.mp4