Hi,

I was wondering if there was an application or command line on linux for joining .ts and .mkv video files. Under windows you could join .ts with : copy /b "film-name-part1.ts" "film.ts", unfortunately I could't find the linux equivalent. I've already tried avidemux but it refuses to open the files (I don't know if this matter but the video files are high-resolution 720p, 1080i...)

Any help appreciated

You can not actually join MPEG-1/2/4 files together. The reason why you can not do this is because not all media players are compatible with this and sometimes produces a freeze when another different data packet is introduce. To the viewer, it is distracting when the media player is a compatible with this. In Linux, I suggest using transcode's utilities to combine the ts (Transport Stream) files. They do it correctly with minimal loss of audio and video sync. If transcode is compiled with Matroska support, it can also combine the files, but I have not yet tested it. Usually, Linux distributions do not come with Matroska support.

The dumb way to combine two or more video files in Linux:
cat file1.mv file2.mv file3.mv > output.mv

The dumb way to combine two or more video files in DOS:
copy /b file1.mv+file2.mv+file3.mv output.mv

Thank you for your detailed answer Electro. I'll look into that