Join MTS files with tsMuxeR

[alberthuber]

Hello
I would like to join about 200 MTS files of my holiday video taken with a Panasonic HC-V727 to one m2ts file (in total about 90 minutes), which I can put on a USB-stick an display on my TV. (The TV does not continue with the next file, I have to start each file manually.) Joining the MTS files works perfect with tsMuxeR, but I have to add each file individually by pressing "join" in order to get it listed as ++ in the Input file liest. This is very time consuming for 200 files. I have not found a method to mark several files in the explorer window (which opens when pressing "join") to select the next file to join with the previous.
Is there a possiblity to select several files or is there a more elegant way to join files (without conversion)? Is there another freeware tool which can do this?
My PC is rather old and I am still using PowerDirector 8 as video software, which means that conversion takes hours. Therefore I was happy to find tsMuxeR to join files, which would fully suit my needs if there is a fast way to get 200 MTS files into the Input file box.
Thanks for your help
Albert

[videobruger]

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate

In Windows use dir/b > mylist.txt to create list. Edit with Notepad++.

[alberthuber]

Hi
Thank you very much for this quick response. I have found ffmpeg and tried to understand the related documentation, but unfortunately I am not experienced enough to get it to work. May I ask you to type an example for the command line to join files listed in 'mylist.txt' and also an example how to list the files in 'mylist.txt'?
Thank you very much.
Albert

[videobruger]

First you download a static version of ffmpeg

Open a CMD shell as shown below.



First "dir/b" shows the files.

Next "dir/b > mylist.txt" creates the mylist.txt file.

Next "D:\MyPC\Disks\P\NotePadPP\notepad++.exe mylist.txt" opens it for editing in Notepad++. The edited file is saved as mylist1.txt.

Next "ffmpeg -f concat -i mylist1.txt -c copy d:\output.mkv" concatenate the files in mylist1.txt to the output file d:\output.mkv