[FFmpeg-user] adding black silence (for commercial break)

[johnd]

I have a video file that I need to insert breaks that are silent and black.
They are there so the video can be the same length as the tv show
with commercials...


are these the correct steps?

cut video into pieces, make black, silent clips, concat all togeter?

I've tried the following and  my blank video is not correct and the
concat stuff doesn't work (the ending file is small)



ffmpeg -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:05 -i original_video.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy 1.mp4

ffmpeg -ss 00:00:05 -i original_video.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy 3.mp4


then I tried to make a black vid like this:


sox -n -r 44100 -b 16 -c 2 -L silence.wav trim 0.0 5.00

(I also tried this ffmpeg -ar 48000 -t 5 -f s16le -i /dev/zero  -ab 64K -f mp4 -acodec libfdk_aac  -y silence.mp4)

ffmpeg -shortest -s 640x360  -t 5 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24  -i /dev/zero -i silence.wav  -vcodec libx264  -acodec  libfdk_aac  2.mp4

then concat like this:


ffmpeg -i concat:"1.mp4|2.mp4|3.mp4" -c copy output.mp4