Wow, this comment got a lot of attention! If anyone is wondering the other piece of this, which is re-unifying all the thousands of video fragments, the game i

Wow, this comment got a lot of attention! If anyone is wondering the other piece of this, which is re-unifying all the thousands of video fragments, the game is over once you have the URI to the playlist file. You feed that URI into VLC's "Convert/Save" functionality and it handles it like a champ. No need to script out anything to grab the pieces and work FFMPEG magic. At the end of the day, it is a 2 step process I could document for my friend who is more or less a layman. A skilled user (decent with Excel), but not a power user (can't script).