Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Split large AVI files

MHO: When splitted, please rename them so that the file name will tell what part of the video the parts are from. Bad examples: part1.avi, part2.avi, part3.avi part1of3.avi, part2of3.avi, part 3of3.avi Good examples: part_0-59m-.avi, part_-59m-1h20m-.avi, part_-1h20m-2h10m.avi part_0m-59m-.avi, part_-59m-80m-.avi, part_-80m-130m.avi part_0-59m10s-.avi, part_-59m10s-1h20m30s-.avi, part_-1h20m30s-2h10m15s.avi Do I need to explain why the latter examples are better that the first ones? (I think I do) Lets say, there is free movie on the Internet to be downloaded. It has been coded several times with different codecs and quality, and has been splitted into parts differently with each author who did the recoding. However, when tried to get the whole movie, say from p2p-networks, one has hard time to download one missing part in the middle. If the names of the parts of the movie would have filenames as in the "Good examples", one could download the whole movie compining different parts from different quality encodings. So if one has already these: freeMovieHDTV_0-50m-.avi, freeMovieHDTV_-120m-180m.avi, but downloading freeMovieHDTV_-51m-119m-.avi is not suffesfull, one could download freeMovieVGA_-40m-3h.avi and that way have the whole movie where the part 51m - 120m would be just in VGA-resolution but would still be better than whole movie in VGA resolution or waiting forever the missing HDTV part. The logic is self explanatory? The "-" mark means in front of the time string there is something in front of this file, "-" in the middle marks what time slice the file holds of the whole, and "-" in the end means something will follow this file. In my opinion, this should be even standardized ;-) and mentioned for example also in MPlayer manuals. Other opinions? (RFC?) // jouni