Homebrew RELEASE Switch Video Combiner - combine those 30s chunks of videos into one in seconds with no quality loss

[orangpelupa]

video tutorial



(just watch the first 1 minute)

1. simply copy the app to the same folder as your 30s video chunks you get from using Switch's SHARE button.
2. run the app, and it will combine them all into one with no quality loss.

file too large to attach https://bramantya.org/apps/

(this is basically just a batch script running FFMPEG to merge the videos without reencoding)

 

[lordelan]

Handy tool although this could be done by the simple CMD command (Windows obviously)

copy /b *.mp4 result.mp4

(didn't test that, I only remember it that way)

 

[Csmrcc]

Nice

 

[Thetoto]

Handy tool although this could be done by the simple CMD command (Windows obviously)

copy /b *.mp4 result.mp4

(didn't test that, I only remember it that way)

Edit : Oops, Yes it works

 

[Cyan]

using a wildcard might not merge them in the correct order.
I didn't know we could concatenate containers in binary format, the container header is not an issue when found in the middle of the video's? that's an mp4 format specification?
or maybe the switch mp4 has no container and are just raw Mpeg video stream.

 

[notimp]

If you have ffmpeg installed, make a textfile named mylist.txt with the following content:

file './1.mp4'
file './2.mp4'
file './3.mp4'
file './4.mp4'
file './5.mp4'

in the folder where your .mp4 files are residing (named like in the list above ) - then run the following

ffmpeg -f concat -i mylist.txt -c copy output.mp4

 

[orangpelupa]

using a wildcard might not merge them in the correct order.
I didn't know we could concatenate containers in binary format, the container header is not an issue when found in the middle of the video's? that's an mp4 format specification?
or maybe the switch mp4 has no container and are just raw Mpeg video stream.

yeah, when i made this i just assume simply copying the chunks into one wont work due to MP4 headers in each chunks.

i should have tried the simple copying-merge command beforehand hahaha. im dumb

 

[SimonMKWii]

Handy tool although this could be done by the simple CMD command (Windows obviously)

copy /b *.mp4 result.mp4

(didn't test that, I only remember it that way)

I wouldn't recommend this, while modern players such as VLC may be smart enough to recognise it, it's not advised to concatenate files with their headers and footers, use ffmpeg as it'll copy only the raw streams.

 

[lordelan]

I wouldn't recommend this, while modern players such as VLC may be smart enough to recognise it, it's not advised to concatenate files with their headers and footers, use ffmpeg as it'll copy only the raw streams.

Good point.

 

[orangpelupa]

I wouldn't recommend this, while modern players such as VLC may be smart enough to recognise it, it's not advised to concatenate files with their headers and footers, use ffmpeg as it'll copy only the raw streams.

Thanks for the explanation. So basically the resulting mp4 merged by ffmpeg will be like a real mp4 from start to finish. Just like something of it was recorded properly from start to finish

 

[UltiGC]

Somewhat unrelated but would anyone know if it’s possible to create a homebrew or mod that captures gameplay footage every 30 secs? Something like that and a program like this could be great for people who don’t have capture devices.

Not sure how the Switch will handle the constant spam of recording though lol.

 

[orangpelupa]

Somewhat unrelated but would anyone know if it’s possible to create a homebrew or mod that captures gameplay footage every 30 secs? Something like that and a program like this could be great for people who don’t have capture devices.

Not sure how the Switch will handle the constant spam of recording though lol.

theoretically, its really possible thru system service or whatever the name is on switch. so you will enable it just like sysftpd that provides background FTP server.

to capture in best possible "stitches" the app should
* record every 30s
* then go to home screen
* after finished saving, go back to game again

it will be annoying to play, but the stitches will relatively be smooth-continuous.

the simples way would be
* simulate hold share button for 1s every 31s

unfortunately im too stupid to do any of those hahaha

 

[orangpelupa]

Sorry still can't find the time for making a new update that would properly clean its own files after combining videos.

Currently you would need to remove the app files by yourself