[FFmpeg-user] A command for splitting a video file by file size

[Julien Dotsev]

Ok. Thank you Moritz.

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, 09:48 Moritz Barsnick, <barsnick at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 00:51:24 +0200, Julien Dotsev wrote:
> > What is dd?
>
> dd is a command line tool. (Also available for other OSs than Unix.)
>
> To take up your example:
>
> $ dd if=inputfile.ext bs=1M skip=4 of=outputfile.ext
>
> But if you're doing this with a video file, the result can be
> unplayable. This depends on the format of the video file, and possibly
> on its content.
>
> If you want to use ffmpeg to split a file, please understand that
> ffmpeg always demuxes and remuxes the video content, and usually cannot
> preserve the exact original container.
>
> Cheers,
> Moritz
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