[MPlayer-users] chopping up avi's

[Michael Waters]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 00:25 -0600, Jason Pepas wrote:
> can mencoder be used to chop up avi's?
> 
> this:
> mencoder big.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -endpos 650mb -o part1.avi
> 
> should work for getting the first chunk, but then after that, is there any way 
> to seek directly to 650mb for the beginning of the next chunk?  I saw -ss, 
> but if the video and audio codecs are variable bitrate, it would be 
> impossible to calculate how many seconds equal the 650mb mark.  I also tried 
> -sb, but that didn't work.
> 
> or, are there any other command line tools out there for splitting up avi 
> files into chunks of a certain size?

-oac copy -ovc copy with -ss didn't work for me when I tried with vbr
mp3.  The last time I tried transcode, it didn't do vbr mp3 at all.
avidemux is gui but it was able to split up avis made with mencoder.