On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 15:22 +1200, Roy Britten wrote: > A work colleague has a couple of ~2.2GB .avi files that his MSWin box is > failing to handle, possibly because of the file size. He's unwilling to > compress/downsample as there is useful data in the detail that he > doesn't want to lose. Is there a Linux tool that I can use to split his > files into, say, two or three smaller self-contained files?
Thanks for the suggestions. ffmpeg did some very weird things with size and colour (see http://shell.clug.net.nz:8080/~britten/pink.png for a screenshot of the pink cast that rendered the movie impossible to interpret). In the end mencoder did the job very nicely: mencoder -noskip infile.avi -ovc copy -idx \ -ss [n] -endpos [m] -o outfile.avi where [n] is the number of seconds into the stream to start the copy (-ss 0 to start at the beginning of the file), and [m] is the length of the output file in seconds. Thanks again, Roy.
