[MEncoder-users] Can I split multi-chunked AVI?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 17 March 2008 at 20:11, Alexander Bokovikov wrote:
> Hi, All,
> 
> I've an AVI (XVID) file of 2+ GBytes in size. Of course it is multi-chunked. 
> Chunk size is 1023 MBytes. I.e. It has 2 chunks of 1023 MBytes each + one 
> extra small chank.
> 
> My problem is that my DVD player does not support multi-chunked AVI's. Can I 
> use MEncoder somehow to split this AVI into different AVI's with single 
> chunk in each?
> 
> This is because I doun't like to re-encode this file, so I'd prefer to split 
> it somehow.

Yes. Use -ovc copy -oac copy -noodml and appropriate time specifications,
for example -endpos 01:00:00 for the first hour and -ss 01:00:00 for the rest.

Regards,
R.

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