vidmerger

Vidmerger

A wrapper around FFmpeg which simplifies merging of multiple videos.

🙉 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 simplifies 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>

Arguments:
  <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
      --shutdown          For doing a shutdown at the end (needs sudo)
      --skip-fps-changer  Skips the fps changer
  -y, --yes               Skips confirmation of merge order
      --verbose           Prints detailed logs
  -h, --help              Print help
  -V, --version           Print version

%%{init: {'themeVariables': { 'mainBkg': 'white', 'nodeBorder': 'black' }}}%%
graph LR;
VideoA((Video_A))-->Vidmerger;
VideoB((Video_B))-->Vidmerger;
Vidmerger-->|no fps mismatch detected| Merger;
Vidmerger-->FPS_Changer-->Merger;
Merger-->Video_A+B_and_chapters;

Feature	Description
Selector	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`.
Merger	Finally, it merges the videos and adds chapters. Chapter titles are automatically extracted from the input file names — specifically, the text between the first dash and the file extension. Example: `Video_A - Chapter 1.mp4`.

✨ 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/0.4.0/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 -it -v <PATH-TO-YOUR-VIDEOS>:/data tgotwig/vidmerger

Examples with Bash:

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

⚙️ Developing

Built With

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

Prerequisites

Setting up Dev

Once you are done with installing the prerequisites, run task:

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

If you see anything to improve, just create an issue or directly open a pull request 🤗✨

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.
Docker: Gets automatically deployed by release.yml after pushing a git tag.