FFmpeg – Concatenating multiple MP4 files

Question

I am using an external script (http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate#extscript) to concatenate multiple MP4 files. This script lets you do a command like this:

./mmcat input1 input2 input3 ... output

to concatenate multiple files.

I am using this command right now:

./mmcat.sh video1.mp4 video2.mp4 video3.mp4 "output.mp4"

After getting an "Operation not permitted" error, I logged the results, which are listed below:

In log.v.3 and log.v.2:

[yuv4mpegpipe @ 00000190aa080a20] ERROR: Codec not supported.

Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?): Invalid data found when processing input

In log.a.2: Temp/mcs_a2.lnk: Permission denied

In log.a.3: ...AppData/Local/Temp/mcs_a3.lnk': Output file #0 does not contain any stream

I would appreciate any help, as I'm very new to using ffmpeg and just a beginner at video encoding etc., in general.

Answer 1

Had the same problem, then found this post in its mailing list after weeks of debugging.

Worked for me after removing every occurrence of -vcodec $PARAM [1] in mmcat script.

[1]: $PARAM is not literal, it's whatever value used for ffmpeg's -vcodec option in the script.