[MPlayer-users] Split and merge with mencoder.... how ?

[Taylor Smith]

Hey,

I think I can help with this. For splitting, it's simple, you can:

mencoder orig.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -endpos XXXX -o movie.part1.avi
                 (copy audio and vid) (end at XXXX)

(Where XXXX can be a time, like 1:00:00 for an hour, or a size like 700mb, but if it's a size it won't be exact because splitting can only happen at certain intervals in the movie.)

for part two:

mencoder orig.avi -oac copy -ovc copy [-ss OR -sb] -o movie.part2.avi

(-ss means to seek for a time before starting output, like -ss 1:00.00 will start the new file at one hour into the old file. -sb works similarly, but for file sized, so -sb 700mb would start __near__ 700mb into the file.)

I'm not sure on the merging and I don't want to give you garbage, but you might try "mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o file3.avi -- file1.avi file2.avi" and see if that works, but it will ONLY work if the two files are of the exact same type (resolution, audio/video codecs, file format, etc...)

Hope I helped,
Taylor Smith

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 06:12:52 +0300, marianciuc <marianciuc at home.ro> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have one avi file  film.avi (840 Mb)
> 
> How  I cut this in two files, first film1.avi (700 Mb) and
> second film2.avi (140 Mb) ? (with mencoder or other.., I prefere mencoder )
> How I merge film1.avi with film2.avi in a single file, film3.avi ?
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
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