Guides / Apps for encoding (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Sourmilk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I have started encoding, but have now gotten to making videos where multiple video streams need to be combined from a bluray source, into one video file - Does anyone know any programs for this, or any in depth guides on Remuxing / etc?

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[-] TheFool@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

ffmpeg, if you need a gui use handbreak

[-] Sourmilk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

I currently use Handbrake (I'm not much without a GUI aha) but it doesn't seem to have any options for merging / combining video files. I'm hoping to encode here, but the bluray source splits the movie into a couple of video files, and I'd like to combine them first before encoding

[-] TheFool@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you trying to concat streams or just to remux? For remuxing as roawre said there’s also MkvToolNix, which works great (and it has a gui don’t worry)

[-] Sourmilk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Mkvtoolnix

I'm sorry, I've done a poor job explaining. The source has split the movie, intro, and credits into 3 video files, and i'd like to make them one file, before or during the re-encoding process, so that the final movie includes the intro and credits. I'm currently grabbing MKVtoolnix, to see if it can do it, but I completely missed @roawre@feddit.ch comment, so thank you for re-iterating, thanks to roawre for the original comment, and thanks to everyone for their responses, getting into this seems overwhelming and i'm so grateful to have your assistance!

Also, the files I have are ".m2ts", will mkvtoolnix support this, or will I need to encode first? MKVtoolnixs website seems to imply it only really likes .MKV files

[-] TheFool@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Okay MkvToolnix isn’t the right tool for that afaik, but ffmpeg is and it sucks there isn’t a GUI for it that’s as powerful as the cli which is what I use, luckily you can find a lot of help online,

Apart from that I’m afraid i can’t help much, but good luck with your search!

[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

With ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i src -c copy -map 0:v:0 -map 0:v:1 -map 0:a out.mkv

ffmpeg uses a sectioned parameter approach. Input parameters and input, optionally multiple, output parameters and output target.

In my example I specified copy as codec so the streams are copied as-is, without reencoding. I used map to map video streams 1 and 2 of the first input, and default/all audio streams.

The ffmpeg reference docs are thorough. The wiki has some more guide, example, and explanatory docs.