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Downloading a video stream with curl, I ended up with ~400 *.ts files, each about 1MB in size. They are sequentially numbered video1.ts, video2.ts, ...video400.ts. I now need to concatenate them into one file, obviously in the right order (so video10.ts should be followed by video11.ts and not video110.ts).



I've tried to come up with something like "for i in *.ts; do ...." but I just can't figure it out. Also ffmepg and avconv are too complicated for me.



Who knows how to join these 400 files in the right oreder, into a new file? Thx!










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    Downloading a video stream with curl, I ended up with ~400 *.ts files, each about 1MB in size. They are sequentially numbered video1.ts, video2.ts, ...video400.ts. I now need to concatenate them into one file, obviously in the right order (so video10.ts should be followed by video11.ts and not video110.ts).



    I've tried to come up with something like "for i in *.ts; do ...." but I just can't figure it out. Also ffmepg and avconv are too complicated for me.



    Who knows how to join these 400 files in the right oreder, into a new file? Thx!










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      Downloading a video stream with curl, I ended up with ~400 *.ts files, each about 1MB in size. They are sequentially numbered video1.ts, video2.ts, ...video400.ts. I now need to concatenate them into one file, obviously in the right order (so video10.ts should be followed by video11.ts and not video110.ts).



      I've tried to come up with something like "for i in *.ts; do ...." but I just can't figure it out. Also ffmepg and avconv are too complicated for me.



      Who knows how to join these 400 files in the right oreder, into a new file? Thx!










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      Downloading a video stream with curl, I ended up with ~400 *.ts files, each about 1MB in size. They are sequentially numbered video1.ts, video2.ts, ...video400.ts. I now need to concatenate them into one file, obviously in the right order (so video10.ts should be followed by video11.ts and not video110.ts).



      I've tried to come up with something like "for i in *.ts; do ...." but I just can't figure it out. Also ffmepg and avconv are too complicated for me.



      Who knows how to join these 400 files in the right oreder, into a new file? Thx!







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          What sort of does the trick:



          for i in `seq 1 400`; do cat "video$i.ts" >> newvideo.ts; done


          but now the audio is out of sync by ~0.5s and there are ~0.5s silences every few seconds (presumably when fragments are glued together).






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            This is an old question but I hope the answer may add value for others.



            Based on this reference, the following script will do the job, assuming ffmpeg 1.1 and later.



            #!/bin/bash

            for i in `seq 0 $totalNumberOfTsFiles`; do echo file "'${i}.ts'" >> Input.txt ; done
            /home/hq6/bin/ffmpeg-2.3.3/ffmpeg -f concat -i Input.txt -c copy output.ts





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              The entire for loop can probably be replaced by something like seq -f '%g.ts' 0 $totalNumberOfTsFiles for a similar result with a much cleaner command line.
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            Try the following command:



            cat video?.ts video??.ts video???.ts  > out.ts





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              filenames="`ls -rt1 $input | tr 'n' '|' | sed '$ s/.$//'`"



              ffmpeg -i "concat:$filenames" -c copy out.ts,



              where $input is the filename(s) or escaped regexp (e.g., *.ts).






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                All the answers to this question that mislead readers to concatenate the TS files before running ffmpeg are incorrect. To ensure the audio and video do not fall out of sync during the assembly of the mp4 stream, the poorly documented but important "-f concat" feature of ffmpeg should be used.



                    delimiterBeforeFileNumber="-"
                ls |egrep '[.]ts$'
                |sort "-t$delimiterBeforeFileNumber" -k2,2n
                |sed -r "s/(.*)/file '1'/" >ts.files.txt

                ffmpeg -f concat -i ts.files.txt -c copy tsw.014.ts.mp4


                The two preparatory lines of code just create a file containing a list of TS files in this line format, which is used by ffmpeg like a playlist.



                    file 'seg-37-a.ts'





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                  What sort of does the trick:



                  for i in `seq 1 400`; do cat "video$i.ts" >> newvideo.ts; done


                  but now the audio is out of sync by ~0.5s and there are ~0.5s silences every few seconds (presumably when fragments are glued together).






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                    What sort of does the trick:



                    for i in `seq 1 400`; do cat "video$i.ts" >> newvideo.ts; done


                    but now the audio is out of sync by ~0.5s and there are ~0.5s silences every few seconds (presumably when fragments are glued together).






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                      What sort of does the trick:



                      for i in `seq 1 400`; do cat "video$i.ts" >> newvideo.ts; done


                      but now the audio is out of sync by ~0.5s and there are ~0.5s silences every few seconds (presumably when fragments are glued together).






                      share|improve this answer












                      What sort of does the trick:



                      for i in `seq 1 400`; do cat "video$i.ts" >> newvideo.ts; done


                      but now the audio is out of sync by ~0.5s and there are ~0.5s silences every few seconds (presumably when fragments are glued together).







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                          This is an old question but I hope the answer may add value for others.



                          Based on this reference, the following script will do the job, assuming ffmpeg 1.1 and later.



                          #!/bin/bash

                          for i in `seq 0 $totalNumberOfTsFiles`; do echo file "'${i}.ts'" >> Input.txt ; done
                          /home/hq6/bin/ffmpeg-2.3.3/ffmpeg -f concat -i Input.txt -c copy output.ts





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                            The entire for loop can probably be replaced by something like seq -f '%g.ts' 0 $totalNumberOfTsFiles for a similar result with a much cleaner command line.
                            – a CVn
                            Aug 28 '15 at 19:12










                          • James Ivey: If you have a new idea for a different way to solve this problem, don’t try to post it in a comment (and don’t edit it into somebody else’s answer); post it as a new answer (in the “Your Answer” box at the bottom of the page). In case you’ve forgotten what you wanted to submit, you can review it here. Notes: (1) When the output of ls is a pipe, it uses -1 mode automatically. You can see this by running plain ls and then ls | cat. (2) ls sorts its output by name unless you tell it not to, so you don’t need ls | sort.
                            – Scott
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                          This is an old question but I hope the answer may add value for others.



                          Based on this reference, the following script will do the job, assuming ffmpeg 1.1 and later.



                          #!/bin/bash

                          for i in `seq 0 $totalNumberOfTsFiles`; do echo file "'${i}.ts'" >> Input.txt ; done
                          /home/hq6/bin/ffmpeg-2.3.3/ffmpeg -f concat -i Input.txt -c copy output.ts





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                            The entire for loop can probably be replaced by something like seq -f '%g.ts' 0 $totalNumberOfTsFiles for a similar result with a much cleaner command line.
                            – a CVn
                            Aug 28 '15 at 19:12










                          • James Ivey: If you have a new idea for a different way to solve this problem, don’t try to post it in a comment (and don’t edit it into somebody else’s answer); post it as a new answer (in the “Your Answer” box at the bottom of the page). In case you’ve forgotten what you wanted to submit, you can review it here. Notes: (1) When the output of ls is a pipe, it uses -1 mode automatically. You can see this by running plain ls and then ls | cat. (2) ls sorts its output by name unless you tell it not to, so you don’t need ls | sort.
                            – Scott
                            Oct 29 '17 at 18:09














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                          This is an old question but I hope the answer may add value for others.



                          Based on this reference, the following script will do the job, assuming ffmpeg 1.1 and later.



                          #!/bin/bash

                          for i in `seq 0 $totalNumberOfTsFiles`; do echo file "'${i}.ts'" >> Input.txt ; done
                          /home/hq6/bin/ffmpeg-2.3.3/ffmpeg -f concat -i Input.txt -c copy output.ts





                          share|improve this answer












                          This is an old question but I hope the answer may add value for others.



                          Based on this reference, the following script will do the job, assuming ffmpeg 1.1 and later.



                          #!/bin/bash

                          for i in `seq 0 $totalNumberOfTsFiles`; do echo file "'${i}.ts'" >> Input.txt ; done
                          /home/hq6/bin/ffmpeg-2.3.3/ffmpeg -f concat -i Input.txt -c copy output.ts






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                            The entire for loop can probably be replaced by something like seq -f '%g.ts' 0 $totalNumberOfTsFiles for a similar result with a much cleaner command line.
                            – a CVn
                            Aug 28 '15 at 19:12










                          • James Ivey: If you have a new idea for a different way to solve this problem, don’t try to post it in a comment (and don’t edit it into somebody else’s answer); post it as a new answer (in the “Your Answer” box at the bottom of the page). In case you’ve forgotten what you wanted to submit, you can review it here. Notes: (1) When the output of ls is a pipe, it uses -1 mode automatically. You can see this by running plain ls and then ls | cat. (2) ls sorts its output by name unless you tell it not to, so you don’t need ls | sort.
                            – Scott
                            Oct 29 '17 at 18:09














                          • 1




                            The entire for loop can probably be replaced by something like seq -f '%g.ts' 0 $totalNumberOfTsFiles for a similar result with a much cleaner command line.
                            – a CVn
                            Aug 28 '15 at 19:12










                          • James Ivey: If you have a new idea for a different way to solve this problem, don’t try to post it in a comment (and don’t edit it into somebody else’s answer); post it as a new answer (in the “Your Answer” box at the bottom of the page). In case you’ve forgotten what you wanted to submit, you can review it here. Notes: (1) When the output of ls is a pipe, it uses -1 mode automatically. You can see this by running plain ls and then ls | cat. (2) ls sorts its output by name unless you tell it not to, so you don’t need ls | sort.
                            – Scott
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                          The entire for loop can probably be replaced by something like seq -f '%g.ts' 0 $totalNumberOfTsFiles for a similar result with a much cleaner command line.
                          – a CVn
                          Aug 28 '15 at 19:12




                          The entire for loop can probably be replaced by something like seq -f '%g.ts' 0 $totalNumberOfTsFiles for a similar result with a much cleaner command line.
                          – a CVn
                          Aug 28 '15 at 19:12












                          James Ivey: If you have a new idea for a different way to solve this problem, don’t try to post it in a comment (and don’t edit it into somebody else’s answer); post it as a new answer (in the “Your Answer” box at the bottom of the page). In case you’ve forgotten what you wanted to submit, you can review it here. Notes: (1) When the output of ls is a pipe, it uses -1 mode automatically. You can see this by running plain ls and then ls | cat. (2) ls sorts its output by name unless you tell it not to, so you don’t need ls | sort.
                          – Scott
                          Oct 29 '17 at 18:09




                          James Ivey: If you have a new idea for a different way to solve this problem, don’t try to post it in a comment (and don’t edit it into somebody else’s answer); post it as a new answer (in the “Your Answer” box at the bottom of the page). In case you’ve forgotten what you wanted to submit, you can review it here. Notes: (1) When the output of ls is a pipe, it uses -1 mode automatically. You can see this by running plain ls and then ls | cat. (2) ls sorts its output by name unless you tell it not to, so you don’t need ls | sort.
                          – Scott
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                          Try the following command:



                          cat video?.ts video??.ts video???.ts  > out.ts





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                          Try the following command:



                          cat video?.ts video??.ts video???.ts  > out.ts





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                          • The duration of out.ts will likely be that of the first video.
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                          Try the following command:



                          cat video?.ts video??.ts video???.ts  > out.ts





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                          Try the following command:



                          cat video?.ts video??.ts video???.ts  > out.ts






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                          • The duration of out.ts will likely be that of the first video.
                            – Geremia
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                          • The duration of out.ts will likely be that of the first video.
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                          The duration of out.ts will likely be that of the first video.
                          – Geremia
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                          The duration of out.ts will likely be that of the first video.
                          – Geremia
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                                  filenames="`ls -rt1 $input | tr 'n' '|' | sed '$ s/.$//'`"



                                  ffmpeg -i "concat:$filenames" -c copy out.ts,



                                  where $input is the filename(s) or escaped regexp (e.g., *.ts).






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                                    filenames="`ls -rt1 $input | tr 'n' '|' | sed '$ s/.$//'`"



                                    ffmpeg -i "concat:$filenames" -c copy out.ts,



                                    where $input is the filename(s) or escaped regexp (e.g., *.ts).






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                                      filenames="`ls -rt1 $input | tr 'n' '|' | sed '$ s/.$//'`"



                                      ffmpeg -i "concat:$filenames" -c copy out.ts,



                                      where $input is the filename(s) or escaped regexp (e.g., *.ts).






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                                      filenames="`ls -rt1 $input | tr 'n' '|' | sed '$ s/.$//'`"



                                      ffmpeg -i "concat:$filenames" -c copy out.ts,



                                      where $input is the filename(s) or escaped regexp (e.g., *.ts).







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                                          All the answers to this question that mislead readers to concatenate the TS files before running ffmpeg are incorrect. To ensure the audio and video do not fall out of sync during the assembly of the mp4 stream, the poorly documented but important "-f concat" feature of ffmpeg should be used.



                                              delimiterBeforeFileNumber="-"
                                          ls |egrep '[.]ts$'
                                          |sort "-t$delimiterBeforeFileNumber" -k2,2n
                                          |sed -r "s/(.*)/file '1'/" >ts.files.txt

                                          ffmpeg -f concat -i ts.files.txt -c copy tsw.014.ts.mp4


                                          The two preparatory lines of code just create a file containing a list of TS files in this line format, which is used by ffmpeg like a playlist.



                                              file 'seg-37-a.ts'





                                          share|improve this answer


























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                                            All the answers to this question that mislead readers to concatenate the TS files before running ffmpeg are incorrect. To ensure the audio and video do not fall out of sync during the assembly of the mp4 stream, the poorly documented but important "-f concat" feature of ffmpeg should be used.



                                                delimiterBeforeFileNumber="-"
                                            ls |egrep '[.]ts$'
                                            |sort "-t$delimiterBeforeFileNumber" -k2,2n
                                            |sed -r "s/(.*)/file '1'/" >ts.files.txt

                                            ffmpeg -f concat -i ts.files.txt -c copy tsw.014.ts.mp4


                                            The two preparatory lines of code just create a file containing a list of TS files in this line format, which is used by ffmpeg like a playlist.



                                                file 'seg-37-a.ts'





                                            share|improve this answer
























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                                              All the answers to this question that mislead readers to concatenate the TS files before running ffmpeg are incorrect. To ensure the audio and video do not fall out of sync during the assembly of the mp4 stream, the poorly documented but important "-f concat" feature of ffmpeg should be used.



                                                  delimiterBeforeFileNumber="-"
                                              ls |egrep '[.]ts$'
                                              |sort "-t$delimiterBeforeFileNumber" -k2,2n
                                              |sed -r "s/(.*)/file '1'/" >ts.files.txt

                                              ffmpeg -f concat -i ts.files.txt -c copy tsw.014.ts.mp4


                                              The two preparatory lines of code just create a file containing a list of TS files in this line format, which is used by ffmpeg like a playlist.



                                                  file 'seg-37-a.ts'





                                              share|improve this answer












                                              All the answers to this question that mislead readers to concatenate the TS files before running ffmpeg are incorrect. To ensure the audio and video do not fall out of sync during the assembly of the mp4 stream, the poorly documented but important "-f concat" feature of ffmpeg should be used.



                                                  delimiterBeforeFileNumber="-"
                                              ls |egrep '[.]ts$'
                                              |sort "-t$delimiterBeforeFileNumber" -k2,2n
                                              |sed -r "s/(.*)/file '1'/" >ts.files.txt

                                              ffmpeg -f concat -i ts.files.txt -c copy tsw.014.ts.mp4


                                              The two preparatory lines of code just create a file containing a list of TS files in this line format, which is used by ffmpeg like a playlist.



                                                  file 'seg-37-a.ts'






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