How to Merge and Concatenate Videos with FFmpeg

Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You need to join two or more video files into one. Maybe you're stitching together clips from a multi-camera shoot, assembling a highlight reel, or building an automated video pipeline. FFmpeg can do it, but the syntax trips up even experienced developers. FFmpeg has three different ways to concatenate videos: the concat demuxer, the concat filter, and the concat protocol. Each one works differently, and picking the wrong one will give you corrupted outpu