mplayer to split avi's

phishman3579 · 09-19-2003, 09:48 AM

I've hear there is a way to get mplayer to split an avi but I can't seem to find the acutal comand... Anyone got a clue?

Locura · 09-19-2003, 08:12 PM

You may be able to do it with mencoder, but it would be much easier to use transcode for avis.

Locura · 09-19-2003, 08:15 PM

Oh, and I think you need nasm to compile it. There should be a version of it on the Slackware ISO, but if not you can just get it from that link.

crashmeister · 09-20-2003, 05:38 AM

avidemux is the easiest way to split an avi if you want a gui tool.

zen_guerrilla · 09-21-2003, 07:20 PM

Play the avi & calculate when you want to split it, ie for 1 hour (01:00:00).Then :

Code:

mencoder full.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -endpos 01:00:00 -o part1.avi
mencoder full.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -ss 01:00:00 -o part2.avi

for more details "man mplayer". After that I guess the options should be pretty much self-explanatory

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btw. transcode & avidemux can't split movies that have audio encoded as vbr/abr (from mencoder), they simply cause a/v de-sync's.

phishman3579 · 09-23-2003, 08:38 AM

Thanks everyone...

Locura · 09-23-2003, 08:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by zen_guerrilla
btw. transcode & avidemux can't split movies that have audio encoded as vbr/abr (from mencoder), they simply cause a/v de-sync's.

Yeah, for that exact reason I don't use vbr much when I use mencoder, unless I really need to keep the size of the file down.

zen_guerrilla · 09-24-2003, 04:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Locura
Yeah, for that exact reason I don't use vbr much when I use mencoder, unless I really need to keep the size of the file down.

I don't play my movies on windoze (abr borken there) & I don't use transcode, so I get good audio quality and smaller files with abr

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OT: Transcode - last time I checked - was so much slower than mencoder that I dumped it immediately. Maybe I'll check it again sometime....

Locura · 09-24-2003, 05:38 AM

Well, if I ever need to share encoded files, I have to consider that they *gasp* won't be using Linux

zen_guerrilla · 09-24-2003, 05:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Locura
Well, if I ever need to share encoded files, I have to consider that they *gasp* won't be using Linux

BOFH Excuse (I use) :
it doesn't play on windoze