Automating one output from many sources

[Omichron]

Hello,

I have hundreds of DV files. Most of them are very short (1-2 minutes) and I was trying to stitch them together into one longer home video. I would keep the originals, I'm never touching those, I just want to have something my mother can watch easily via Jellyfin

So, my question is: is there an easy way to get one output out of many inputs, WITHOUT going the manual route of hand-placing them in something like, OpenShot or Premiere? With so many dv files the chance of messing up is high.

Bonus: any way to also automate chapter creation so each clip is its own chapter and you can easily skip to the next one?

Bonus: any way to have it so that the subtitle track contains the DATE of the dv file? This is the sort of data that's very useful to have but not burned in the video.

Thank you for any help

[ProWo]

You could try clever FFmpeg-GUI.
Start it, click join, drag your dv files into and click join.