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Quote from: timaavid on January 02, 2021, 07:07:14 AMwhen I try to drag my files into a new session (28 x 4MB files); they don't get into Avidemux in order

If Windows, try dragging from Everything (into Avidemux) & see if that helps.

(I'd think a real file manager should also work.
Windows Explorer, on the rare time I used that, did not work [for correctly ordered drag&drop into mpv.net].
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1972286#post1972286)

Any possibility to implement "sequence" file open option from Virtualdub? The one that can open a sequence of files like "file00, file01" by selecting only first file from the sequence? This will solve all problems with "ordered drag&drop", because user could name them in correct order in advance.

Elstar,

• Create a text or bat file that renames the files so that they are recognized in the order you want. ---  You can make a long list of command lines using Excel.  I've attached a txt command line file.  Just search and replace the text 'file' with whatever filename you need.  Then you can either copy all the file content into a command window that is in the directory with just the media files you want to rename.
• Then run a copy command to append them together into one .mp4 file.

This is how much work it takes to fix your file name order problem and create a media file.

- Open a command window [Ctrl] r - type in cmd [Enter]
- In the command window, move to the folder with your list of media files. cd \mymedia\mediafiles01
- Open the number conversion text file from explorer with a double click.
- Select all lines in the text file. [Ctrl] a
- Copy it to your cache [Ctrl] c
- Click in the command window that is in the directory.
- [Ctrl] v to paste - The command window will rename all your media files in about 1 minute.
- Type in the command window: copy /b *.ts newmedia1.mp4

You will probably then need to remux the newmedia1.mp4 using copy with AVIdemux and the result .mp4 should play correctly for browser playback.

I know that seems tricky.  It takes me all of about 30 seconds of command clicks and waiting a few minutes for everything to process.  It is unlikely that you will find a mouse click GUI app that can do this faster.

Hope that helps.

I know how to concatenate, I wonder, if it will work correctly when doing it with non-TS source, especially, with B-frames...

Quote from: Elstar` on January 07, 2023, 10:33:41 PMI wonder, if it will work correctly when doing it with non-TS source, especially, with B-frames...

Even with MPEG-TS, this is not going to work unless fragments belonged to a single contiguous file.

Quote from: timaavid on January 02, 2021, 07:07:14 AMI am having an issue where I am trying to append many files also (from security camera footage).
My problem is, when I try to drag my files into a new session (28 x 4MB files); they don't get into Avidemux in order.

Never had an issue in Win 7 (AVD 2.8.2). Just two rules to abide by.

1.. Files must be in the correct order in the directory. How they're named, or selected is not important.
2.. Most important. You must click and drag from the first file. If you have 8 files and click and drag from file 5, the order they appear in AVD would be 5. 6. 7. 8. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Sark