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Split QuickTime movies into equal-sized sections
Authored by: brainbox1100 on Aug 16, '06 10:49:10PM
And for a more complicated, using built in tools.... You can also use the split command, found on most UNIX systems; a Windows port exists also.
just do:
split -b 1000m myfile.avi myfile-

The -b 1000m is 1G sections, and the myfile- is the prefix of the output files. For a 3G file you will end up with myfile-aa, myfile-ab, myfile-ac
To join them back together you can:
mv myfile-aa myfile.avi
cat myfile-ab >> myfile.avi
cat myfile-ac >> myfile.avi

The >> tells the cat command to append. So you are just appending one segment to the end of the previous one.

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Split QuickTime movies into equal-sized sections
Authored by: brainbox1100 on Aug 16, '06 10:52:09PM

Woops. I should have read that more carefully. My way just split the files, no export. No way to delete the comment I guess...



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Split QuickTime movies into equal-sized sections
Authored by: vocaro on Aug 18, '06 01:27:12PM
In addition, I don't think your suggestion would work anyway, at least not for what the original submitter intended. He needed a way to split a movie into playable sections, and simply slicing the file up might slice through headers or key frames or what have you, rendering all but the first section unplayable.

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