How can I combine two video files?

[Debbie-Leigh]

Hi,

 

I would like to add a feature to my site that combines two video files together and makes the result available for download. So I've been trying to find somewhere that describes how to do this with code (I use php), but so far haven't been able to find anything.

 

Can anyone tell me how I can do this (either with code or by installing a program on my server that I can call from code to do the combining of the videos) or point me in the right direction to learn how to do it myself?

 

Debbie

 

[AP81]

You'd have to run a Linux command to merge the two videos (you can run bash commands in PHP).

 

So the trick here is to find a Linux application that can do the joining.  I know that avimerge can join .avi files (i.e. avimerge - o output.avi input1.avi input2.avi) and it is part of the transcode package (apt-get install transcode).  If you need to merge mpeg, etc you may need to dig deeper.

 

Your best bet is to post a question in a Linux forum about joining videos.  Once you have figured out how to do that via command line the rest is easy.