Software to join video files

[Thresher]

I am trying to join a couple of mp4 files into one larger file. I can't seem to find any software that can do this easily. Both files have the exact same settings, so I wouldn't think this would be all that complex. Yet finding the application to do this seems to be rarer than hen's teeth.

Any suggestions?

[Zoomastigophora]

If by "join" you mean literally stitch the files together at the data level, then I don't know of anything that can do that for you. Otherwise, you could make an Avisynth script that contains all the videos you want and then transcode everything to one big video file through something like x264 or MeGUI if you don't want to do commandline. If there's audio, you'll probably need to demux the audio tracks out, but then you can just make one large audio file using any audio editing tool e.g. Audacity.

[Thresher]

The thing is that these were ripped with the exact same settings. I am converting some of my DVDs to MP4. A few of these have multiple titles, which Handbrake refuses to join. So I have to convert each title. I was hoping I could find something that would concatenate them.

[Zoomastigophora]

Actually, it just sounds like you a need a container for all your files. Why don't you just mux everything into an mkv file and user chapters to demarcate the separate sections? mkvtoolnix comes with everything you'll need to do that.

Edit: Also, I'm not sure how you're doing the conversion, but you should be able to rip each title as a VOB and then use DGIndex to create a single project with the VOBs you want, which can then be opened via Avisynth script and encoded as one big video. It's a little bit more involved and less straightforward than just telling a GUI what to do, but I think it'll do what you're trying to do.

[crazybus]

MP4Box can concatenate mp4 files. It's command line but the syntax isn't too tricky to figure out, and you should be able to find a binary for most platforms.

[axeman]

I'm not sure about .MP4 containers, but VirtualDub and AVIDemux can do this easily, though neither is particularly simple software to use. Virtualdub, you'll probably need some sort of plugin to import .mp4 files, looks like you can grab that here:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Virtualdub

I'll go one further with AVIdemux and try it myself, I must have some .mp4 files somewhere.

edit: I just tried opening a .m4v (I believe this the same as .mp4 file, my buddy made them on his Mac) file in avidemux, then chose "append", chose another file, then save, and saved it as a new file. both avi and mp4 containers, worked fine. Videos need to be encoded at the same settings unless you want a bunch of extra work though. Go for AVIDemux, VirtualDub is for propellerheads.

[Thresher]

Thanks, I think that will work for me. I'll give it a shot this evening.

[Dposcorp]

I tossed a few different files downloaded from you tube in to MS MovieMaker, and created a single .WMV file.*

I would think then you can use Super or some other converter to convert them.

Win 7 Pro, 64bit.

(*I made long file of stuff my kids like, and burned to a DVD with no chapters to it would just keep playing