How to combine multiple media files into one file
This page relates to users looking for methods of combining multiple media files, such as the AVI, MPEG, and WMV movie formats, and the MP3, Ogg, and WAV audio formats, into one large file.
Many programs are capable of combining multiple movie files and song files into one file. Below is a short list software utilities we found useful.
MediaJoin (Video & Audio)
MediaJoin is a great free program from Mystik Media that allow users to combine MP3, Ogg, WAV, and WMA audio files and AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and WMV files into one file. Unfortunately, the company decided to remove the download for this product from their site to be replaced with other non-free programs. However, it is still available on hundreds of other sites for download.
Mystik Media has additional video and audio combining software for you to check out.
Windows Movie Maker (Video)
Beginning with Windows XP SP2, Windows comes bundled with Windows Movie Maker, a program that can combine WMV movie files into one file as part of the movie editing process.
Easy Video Joiner (video & audio)
Easy Video Joiner has support for many media file formats, including .ASF, .AVI, .M2P, .MP3, .MPEG, .RM, .RAM, .WAV, .WMA, and .WMV.
Joining video on Linux using MKVToolNix
If you are using Linux, you can join videos using the tool MKVToolNix. It supports many file formats, including .MP4, .FLV, .AVI, and QuickTime .MOV. The binary package is available for many Linux distributions, with separate packages for the console and GUI (graphical user interface) versions of the program.
For combining video files from the command line, MKVToolNix provides the tool mkvmerge. Example: to merge videos named file1.mp4, file2.mp4, and file3.mp4 into a new video file, output.mp4, use this command:
mkvmerge -o output.mp4 file1.mp4 \+ file2.mp4 \+ file3.mp4
The GUI version of the tools, mkvtoolnix-gui, lets you merge videos. It has a very clean, intuitive interface.
To install both sets of tools on your Debian or Ubuntu system, use apt:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui
Search for other solutions
There are other solutions to combine audio and video files on your computer. If none of the above recommendations suite your needs, you can: