vidmerger

Vidmerger

A wrapper around FFmpeg which simplifies merging of multiple videos.

%%{init: {'themeVariables': { 'mainBkg': 'white', 'nodeBorder': 'black' }}}%%
graph LR;
Video_A-->Vidmerger;
Video_B-->Vidmerger;
Vidmerger-->FPS_Changer;
FPS_Changer-->Merger;
Merger-->Chapterer;
Chapterer-->Video_A+B;

Vidmerger-->Merger;
Merger-->Video_A+B;

Feature	Description
Selecter	Iterates through this list of file endings, selects all files which matches with the current file ending except ones which start with a dot. The list can be overwritten by --format or -f, example: --format mp4,mkv.
FPS_Changer	After detecting not matching fps values, it scales all the higher fps videos down to the lowest detecting fps value. Can be skipped by --skip-fps-changer. The desired fps value can be set by --fps, example: --fps 23.976.
Chapterer	After the merge job is done, it creates the same file but with chapters in it, the title is all in between the first dash till the file extension, example: Video_A - Chapter 1.mp4. Can be skipped by --skip-chapterer.

🙉 What is this exactly?

Vidmerger is a command-line-tool which uses ffmpeg to merge multiple video-files with the same file-extension into one file, for example running vidmerger . on mp4 files would create a merged video called output.mp4 🐣

Here is the usage help of vidmerger 🤗

A wrapper around ffmpeg which simlifies merging multiple videos 🎞  Everything in between the first
`-` till the fill extension of the input files will be used as chapter titles.

USAGE:
    vidmerger [OPTIONS] <TARGET_DIR>

ARGS:
    <TARGET_DIR>    Sets the input file to use

OPTIONS:
    -f, --format <format>     Specifies which formats should be merged individually, the default is
                              👉 3g2,3gp,aac,ac3,alac,amr,ape,au,avi,awb,dts,f4a,f4b,f4p,f4v,flac,flv,m4a,m4b,m4p,m4r,m4v,mkv,mov,mp2,mp3,mp4,mpeg,mpg,oga,ogg,ogm,ogv,ogx,opus,pcm,spx,wav,webm,wma,wmv
        --fps <fps>           Generates videos inside a temporary folder with this fps value and
                              merges them
    -h, --help                Print help information
        --shutdown            For doing a shutdown at the end (needs sudo)
        --skip-chapterer      Skips the chapterer
        --skip-fps-changer    Skips the fps changer
        --skip-wait           Skips the wait time for reading
    -V, --version             Print version information```

✨ Installing / Getting started

You can install it on all the three major operating systems 🤗

X64

Platform	Packager	Command
🍎 MacOS	🍺 Homwbrew	brew tap tgotwig/vidmerger brew install vidmerger
🐧 Linux	🍺 Homwbrew	brew tap tgotwig/linux-vidmerger brew install vidmerger
🐧 Linux	🍺 CURL	sudo curl -L https://github.com/TGotwig/vidmerger/releases/latest/download/vidmerger-linux.tar.gz -o /tmp/vidmerger-linux.tar.gz && sudo tar -xzvf /tmp/vidmerger-linux.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin
🏳️‍🌈 Windows	🍫 Chocolatey	choco install ffmpeg # prerequisite choco install vidmerger

ARM64

Platform	Packager	Command
🍎 MacOS	🍺 Homwbrew	brew tap tgotwig/vidmerger brew install vidmerger
🐧 Linux	🍺 CURL	sudo curl -L https://github.com/tgotwig/vidmerger/releases/download/0.3.2/vidmerger-linux-arm64.tar.gz -o /tmp/vidmerger-linux-arm64.tar.gz && sudo tar -xzvf /tmp/vidmerger-linux-arm64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin

🐳 Run it without installing

You can also use Docker to run vidmerger without installing anything except Docker, hosted on Dockerhub.

docker container run -v <PATH-TO-YOUR-VIDEOS>:/data tgotwig/vidmerger

Examples with Bash:

docker container run -v ./data:/data tgotwig/vidmerger
docker container run -v ./data:/data tgotwig/vidmerger --version

⚙️ Developing

Built With

Rust and some listed Crates inside of Cargo.toml under dependencies.

Prerequisites

• Rust 2021
• yt-dlp
• ffmpeg
• task

Setting up Dev

Once you are done with installing the prerequisites, you should run task to see if everything runs smooth:

git clone git@github.com:TGotwig/vidmerger.git
cd vidmerger
task

Also click on fork from the top right corner of this repository and run:

git remote add <your-github-name> git@github.com:<your-github-name>/vidmerger.git

Here is a little tutorial about working with forks along with GitKraken 🐙

Building

Run task build to build for Mac, Linux and Windows. You can find the compressed Mac & Linux .tar.gz-archives for Github under target/tars, the .exe file for Windows under tools.

Deploying / Publishing

Automated steps

• Homebrew (MacOS & Linux): Gets automatically deployed by release.yml after pushing a git tag.
• Chocolatey (Windows): Gets automatically deployed by release.yml after pushing a git tag.

Manual steps

Increasing all versions by find and replace, then after task build:

• Dockerhub: Run task publish_dockerhub.

📦 Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning.

🧪 Tests

• For major tests: task test (requires yt-dlp and ffmpeg to be installed)
• For linting tests: task lint

🌟 Style guide

• rust-clippy
• rls-vscode
• conventionalcommits

📜 Licensing

MIT License with “Commons Clause”.