[MPlayer-users] splitting a video and subtitle file

[Loren Merritt]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Hillel Chayim Yisraeli wrote:

> Hi, I have a 1400 MB video and an Srt subtitle file to go with it.  I
> need to split it up into two chunks of 700MB so that I can fit it on
> 700MB cd's for a friend who doesn't have a dvd drive.  Splitting the
> video's no problem with mencoder or with avisplit, but splitting the
> subtitle file and keeping the sync of the video/subs seems problematic.
> Does anybody have an idea what I can do about this?
>
> Maybe I can put the subtitle stream into the avi?  Would that do the
> trick?  Or, is there a way to actually burn the subtitles right onto the
> picture, losing the ability to turn them off?  Since I'll be keeping the
> original myself, I don't mind doing this to his copy.

You can do both at once: mux to matroska and split that.
See http://bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/

mkvmerge foo.avi foo.srt --split 700m -o foo.mkv

--Loren Merritt