{"id":5859,"date":"2023-02-23T12:35:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=5859"},"modified":"2023-02-23T12:35:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:35:05","slug":"calling-the-command-line-tool-ffmpeg-to-concatenate-video-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2023\/02\/23\/calling-the-command-line-tool-ffmpeg-to-concatenate-video-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling the Command Line Tool FFmpeg to Concatenate Video Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often need to call external command line tools from MATLAB to carry out various specialized tasks. Here I plan to make a utility that calls the FFmpeg tool to concatenate video files.<\/p>\n<p>Features covered in this <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/10\/29\/matlab-code-along-videos\/\">code-along<\/a> style video include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><tt><a href=\"https:\/\/it.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/ref\/system.html\">system<\/a><\/tt><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"6321038313112\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Play the video in full screen mode for a better viewing experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2023\/02\/23\/calling-the-command-line-tool-ffmpeg-to-concatenate-video-files\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/cd914c23-d20b-4698-ae87-4525d4fcc27f\/c64a82ab-faa7-4087-a534-9728c625e06a\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">28:25<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>I often need to call external command line tools from MATLAB to carry out various specialized tasks. Here I plan to make a utility that calls the FFmpeg tool to concatenate video files.<br \/>\nFeatures&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2023\/02\/23\/calling-the-command-line-tool-ffmpeg-to-concatenate-video-files\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":5871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5874,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions\/5874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}