[MEncoder-users] splitting avi files

[Giacomo Comes]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:26:07AM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:29:39 +0200
> Assa Yeroslaviz <yeroslav at web.de> wrote:
> 
> > I have the same problem with avisplit.
> > I'm using this line :
> > "avisplit -s 300 -i file.avi -o file_parts.avi"
> > to try and reduce the file size to 300Mb. But I get everytime files
> > of the size 715Mb (the complete file size is 752Mb).
> 
> I've never seen that.  avisplit is at most a couple MBs off of what is
> specified.  

There is a way to make avisplit fail:
create an avi with mpeg2 with:

mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy dvd://1

avisplit will not be able to split the resulting avi.

But for avi normally encoded avisplit has never failed for me.

Giacomo

> 
> Either your file is really badly damaged, or you're doing something very
> wrong.  Either make the file available, or start showing the output of
> the commands you're using.  Just saying "it doesn't work" doesn't allow
> anyone to help you at all.
> 
> You also should not be top-posting, and you should fix your mail
> program to properly quote.