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It would be very expensive, though, as they would have to recode videos constantly. (Edit: my children comments are right)
by eznzt 6y ago
It would be very expensive, though, as they would have to recode videos constantly.
(Edit: my children comments are right)
- krageon 6y agoAt first I thought you had a point (and for practical purposes, perhaps you do) but I don't think it'd be particularly challenging to inject video frames into a stream without re-encoding the original video.
- colejohnson66 6y agoIt’s not challenging.[a] ffmpeg can “join” streams back-to-back without reencoding if one desires. [a]: This is assuming you know the magic incantation to get ffmpeg to do it
- rileyteige 6y agoif anyone has the resources to figure out this magic incantation, it would be Google.
- colejohnson66 6y agoIt’s not that difficult a command compared to what is possible with ffmpeg. But it’s also a pretty common enough task that literally the first result for using DDG with “ffmpeg concatenate without reencoding” gave: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49371422/how-to-merge-two-videos-without-re-encoding https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49371422/how-to-merge-tw...
- mnw21cam 6y agoYou just need to make sure the video sections are stored in a concatenatable format (like mpeg or m4s), and then you can literally use cat.
- kaetemi 6y agoYou can cut on any key frame and switch to another video.