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I have two mp4 files (part 1 and part 2 of a video with sound), and when one ends I want the other to begin, but this gets a little annoying because it is a music video and the sound has to stop while I am launching the new one, so I am wondering if there is any way of making it so that they become one file? I am downloading the mp4 files using VLC Player (I am streaming them from YouTube), so would it perhaps be possible to somehow instruct VLC Player or another player that I could download them with to do this automatically? I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18.

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Here is a workaround ...

  • Download your videos

Instead of downloading your videos using VLC, download them using clipgrab.

It is a little tiny (275KB of size) free and easy to use portable tool
which lets you download videos from Youtube and many other sites.

Just Download it ->Extract it -> double click on it ... ;-)

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You can find numerous ways to achieve this. I use OpenShot.

  • Installing OpenShot :

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openshot-qt

Using this method provides you with the latest version.

OpenShot is also available in the standard repositories and can be installed with:

   sudo apt-get install openshot

  • Joining Videos :

    Drag and drop all the videos to be joined into Openshot as shown.

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Drag and drop each of them into any of the tracks one after the other joining them as you require.

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Go to File-> Export - Save it with whichever name and format you want.

If you want to do this from terminal, good answers are available :

How to join video files from terminal?

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Severus Tux
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  • And there is no way of doing this through VLC Player automatically rather than using additional software (see my updated question)? –  Feb 18 '16 at 17:15
  • There are many features in VLC, one of them which you might be interested in is "Merge and Transcode Multiple Videos" ( more details ), but this needs "your video and audio codecs to be appropriate". But using clipgrab and Openshot is the best way I know for this job ;-) @ParanoidPanda – Severus Tux Feb 18 '16 at 18:25
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Yes you can use the VLC Media Player to join/merge multiple video files. Open a Terminal in the folder with the video files and then type:

vlc InFile1.mp4 InFile2.mp4 --sout "#gather:std{access=file,dst=OutFile.mp4}" --sout-keep

This opens up VLC GUI and you can close it once the files are joined/merged. You can find more info here.

It seems this can also be achieved through VLC GUI but I never go that working properly.

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