Re: splitting/editing avi/video files

[csj@mindgate.net]

At Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:54:52 +0000,
Klaus Imgrund wrote:
> 
> > re-encoding may not work for the same reasons "copying" with
> > mencoder didnt.  Plus the reason I want to do it is to
> > prevent reencoding, I mean I could reencode with mencode as
> > well to a smaller screen or lower resolution and get a
> > smaller file.  Any other ideas?

Did you try copying the copy?

mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -forceidx result_of_first_copy

> That's the reason I use mencoder and avidemux. Sometimes one
> does what the other wouldn't do.  If you just want to split it
> and be able to put it back together on different platforms
> lxsplit is your friend. Only the first part is playable without
> putting it back together though.

If that's the problem you probably don't need to look further
than GNU. For splitting, the following tools come to mind: split,
head, tail and dd.