On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:34AM -0500, kynn@panix.com wrote:
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> 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.)
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> I'm sure this is a pretty common problem, but I don't know the first
> thing about video, so I'm pretty lost. Are there any Debian packages
> for doing this mpg splitting?
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> Thanks!
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> kj
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Hi,
would another possibility for you be to convert the movies to divx? You
would get higher CPU usage, but much smaller files... Generally I think
you need 350 to 400 Mhz to be happy with the result of the conversion.
If you are interested, I can send you a script (based on mencoder) which
automagically does the conversion. Not written by me, it is used like
reencode.sh --size 700 movie.mpg
and you get movie_reenc.avi, nicely sized to 700Mb.
Mail me off the list if you are interested.
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Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred
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