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Re: Package for splitting mpg files for CD burning?



On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:34AM -0500, kynn@panix.com wrote:

> I have some very large mpg files (almost 2 GB each) that I want to
> split so that I can burn the parts into separate CDs, and then view
> the movie segments off the CDs.  (I know that the split command splits
> files into smaller chunks, but I doubt that these chunks could be
> viewed as movies without first reconstituting them into a single
> file.)

Try it.

MPEG1 files have no header or index, so in fact any random chunk of
MPEG file will play.  If you cut in the middle of a frame, all you
lose is that frame.
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