Today had a video that was split into 10 smaller mpg video files. The video files were named 0001.mpg, 0002.mpg etc...
I wanted to merge these into a single mpg video file. Seems quite straight forward but I couldn't find an easy way to do this on OSX. I did however find a couple of tricks for
joining multiple mpeg video files on Windows. I thought it should be possible to use the same method on OSX so I came up the the equivalent commands for OSX.
Steps to join the mpg files
- Ensure the separate movies are sort alphabetically in the order they should be joined
- Open terminal from Applications > Utilities > Terminal
- At the prompt change the directory to the folder where your video files are, for example if the movie files are in a folder called 'MyMovie' on your desktop you would type ~/Desktop/MyMovie
- At the prompt type the command cat *.mpg > fullmovie.mpg
- After a few moments you will see the file fullmovie.mpg appear, if the movies are large it may take a while. With the movie files I was joining the resulting file was just over 2GB and the process took about 20 seconds.
The resulting movie file I was able to open with both VLC and Windows Media Player and watch the movie.