Changes between Version 52 and Version 53 of Concatenate

Timestamp:

Aug 31, 2025, 10:54:51 AM (8 months ago)

Author:

Gyan

Comment:

present two variants for the concat protocol - a naive 'cat' version and a media-aware version.

Concatenate

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 === Concat protocol ===#protocol
 
-While the demuxer works at the stream level, the concat protocol works at the file level. Certain files (MPEG-2 transport streams, possibly others) can be concatenated. This is analogous to using `cat` on UNIX-like systems or `copy` on Windows.
+While the demuxer works at the stream level, the concat protocol works at the file level. Certain files (MPEG-2 transport streams, possibly others) can be concatenated. This can be used analogously to `cat` on UNIX-like systems or `copy` on Windows.
 
 ==== Instructions ====
 
-The following command concatenates three MPEG-2 TS files and concatenates them without re-encoding:
+The following command concatenates three MPEG-2 TS files without any media processing, and is analogous to using the `cat` command:
+
+{{{
+ffmpeg -f data -i "concat:input1.ts|input2.ts|input3.ts" -map 0 -c copy -f data output.ts
+}}}
+
+
+The following command presents three MPEG-2 TS files as a single conjoined input, and streamcopies the media streams to a new output file:
 
 {{{