[FFmpeg-user] Split a video file in two by size and merge it back

[Julien Dotsev]

Hi Carl,
By size i mean by bits and by the same i mean identical. Exactly as it was
before.
I can do this programmatically by splitting a file into bits. Than when I
merge it back it will be exactly as the original one. The problem is that I
want to be able to visualize every part. And by this kind of splitting a
video player won't play them.

Julien

On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, 02:58 Carl Zwanzig, <cpz at tuunq.com> wrote:

> On 10/16/2019 5:10 PM, Julien Dotsev wrote:
> > Is it possible to split a video in two by size and merge it back to the
> > original file? Can that merged file be exactly the same as the original
> one?
>
> By size? Is that half the number of seconds, of v or a frames, packets, or
> bytes?
>
> Split how? Does that mean using ffmpeg or an editor to take the the first
> n
> seconds/frames and the remainder or using a low-level took to take the
> first
> n BYTES and the remainder? In the latter, the second file probably won't
> be
> playable.
>
> What is "the same"?
> If you mean bit-for-bit the same, highly unlikely. If you mean having the
> same content, then possibly (depending on codecs, split point, and
> probably
> other factors).
>
> In other words, please expand on the question.
>
> Later,
>
> z!
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