Re: splitting/editing avi/video files
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 05:16:51 +0800
csj@mindgate.net wrote:
> 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
This is working and I will use it. There seems to be a significant loss
of "smoothness" when seeking after forcing idx though... this is doing
it with mencoder... do you think avidemux would be better?
Shawn
>
> > 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.
don't forget du as i use it to get accurate byte counts, is this right?
Shawn Lamson
shawn.lamson@verizon.net
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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