split a large mpeg file into two
 

Hello,
How do I split a large mpeg (1.4 Giga) file into two,
so I can use vcdimager to convert it to 2 vcd media cds?
regards,
sting

Hi!
Do you know 'avidemux'? It is for video manipulation. Maybe it's useful to you... :D
Regards

split -m 710 <filename>
should come up with two files named xa0 and xa1. (Note I specified 710 Mbytes because it is likely 1.40000001 Gig or something like that, and you only wanted 2 files :) )
To restore it, cat xa* > <origionalfilename>
The good thing about mpegs is that it will resync up, and each file would be viewable. (You might need to rename xa0 to xa0.mpg or part1.mpg, part2.mpg, etc)

RO

Use "avisplit". It's part of "transcoder" package. But I usually "Virtualdub". It works well with "wine".