[Libav-user] using ffmpeg libraries to split a video

[Paul B Mahol]

On 8/11/13, Yousef Alhashemi <yousef.alhashemi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I asked a question on the ffmpeg support forum (ffmpeg.gusari.org) and
> someone pointed me to this list, so I'm repeating my question here:
>
> I would like to use ffmpeg libraries to split a video into equal-sized
> chunks of smaller files. For example, let's say I have a 100MB video that
> I'd like to split into 10 10MB videos using the same audio/video codec and
> container format. On the command-line, it would be something like this
> (assuming 10MB of data = 10 seconds of video): ffmpeg -i input.file -ss
> "00:00:00" -t "00:00:10" -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.file (and repeat
> the same for the remaining 9 chunks)
>
> My question is, what are the actual ffmpeg library calls that do the
> equivalent of this command? I can dig in the code and find out myself but
> that would take me a lot of time because I'm not familiar with the (large)
> code base of ffmpeg. I would appreciate any help from ffmpeg developers; I
> imagine this is easy to answer.

It is far from easy answer, you are actually asking someone to write
code for you.