Software to Batch join and encode

[oohrah]

I am looking for a software application then I can build a cue to combine say 5 files to a single file and encode say to mp4 (iphone format) then add say another set of 3 to one file and encode . Here is my problem, I receive numerous split files from people daily and need to join those files and encode to a specific format. It is a pain to do these one and a time and very time consuming. I am hoping someone here can help me as I have searched and search and have found nothing to does what I need . Any help is appriciated

[Budman1]

It would depend on several factors. All the ones being joined usually have to be the same format, aspect, dimensions, etc. I doubt that the 'Numerous split files from people...' are all the same so trying to join them may entail recoding them to what you what first and then joining them. Unfortunately, most times this will take manual intervention.

[oohrah]

Yea, the ones being joined are all the same. They've just split them incase there is a problem with the upload

[Budman1]

Then a batch file should be able to join and rename except for a couple problems.

1. Once the files are joined and handed off by Windows to be re-written as a new file, Windows and its CMD screen doesn't like to wait until the file is actually out on disk so things like slow drive, USB drive, processor speed, etc. can cause a failure when your recoding CMD lines try to find the file.

2. Building a 'Cue' to load into this batch file might be cumbersome to achieve. In fact building a cue for any utility might be difficult depending on what you mean.

You are looking for a Cue such as the name of the first file, which is similar to it's associated files right? Two files needing to be joined are like (example001, example002 - test000, test001, test003)

[oohrah]

Yea. I was hoping there was a third party software as I do not like windows nor do I trust it. I was hoping to create something like, just using XML as and example, and let it run

<movie>
<filename>movie1.mp4</filename>
<joins>
<file>part1_party.mp4</file>
<file>part2_party.mp4</file>
</joins>
</movie>

<movie>
<filename>movie2.mp4</filename>
<joins>
<file>part1_swim.mp4</file>
<file>part2_swim.mp4</file>
<file>part3_swim.mp4</file>
<file>part4_swim.mp4</file>
</joins>
</movie>

<movie>
<filename>movie3.mp4</filename>
<joins>
<file>part1_concert.mp4</file>
<file>part2_concert.mp4</file>
<file>part3_concert.mp4</file>
</joins>
</movie>

I hope that clarifies things a bit further. It doesn't have to follow that but just some way to set up an automatic cue and let it run however long it takes. I enjoy doing what I do but would love to add a bit more time for me to have fun with the fam instead of having to arrange things around joining these things and re-encoding them to insure a standard format across the board.

[sneaker]

ffmpeg concat demuxer takes text files with lists of files for appending.
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/376665-Concatenating-Joining-Appending-MKV-Files

[oohrah]

Thanks sneaker, I'll check it out and see if it can do what I want and get back to the post