What is the best way to split mpegs

[yanon]

I have been using easy video splitter by DoEasier.com. It works but I notice that joining the splitted files with Easy Video joiner, also by the same company, will yield a file that is smaller than the original. After analyzing the original file, the splitted files and the joined file with Virtual Dub. I notice that the total frame rate of the splitted files equals the joined file but smaller than the original file. So, the problem is in the splitting not joining. Even though the difference is not huge (less than a second of playing time is missing), I really a method or program to split large (over a gigabyte) mpeg files into smaller files can be rejoined without audio sync problem, recompression, or missing frames. Anyone has a recommendation? Please elaborate as much as possible on your response.

[setarip]

What is your purpose in splitting the files?

If it is to merely break the file into smaller pieces for subsequent rejoining, then the fact that it's an MPEG file is irrelevant and you use FileSplit.

If you intend to do some very basic editing (by cutting out pieces), then use MPEGCutter v.1.15 (MPEG2CUT.EXE) or ChopperXP...

[yanon]

my intention is to

burn them onto CDR's for storage and viewing. Maybe two years from now, I will rejoin them and store them on DVD+R. Why two years? It's because the current generation of DVD+/-RW drives are too slow and DVD+R or DVD-R media are still relatively expensive. Current state of DVD+/-RW market reminds me the state of CD-RW market back in 1997. 4X DVD-R burning speed is just too slow. 8X is better. I will buy a DVD+/-RW drive when an 8X drive is under $200 and the medium cost less than $0.75 each.

[rsquirell]

Setarip recommended MPEG2CUT to me, and I concur...It's freeware and probably the best splitter out there for MPEG. I've just tried the freeware HJsplitter for it's joining function (I haven't tried it's splitting function yet...but as a joiner it appears to function very well). I tried Easyjoin...but I noticed a slight jerk at the seam where the parts were joined. I found BoilSoft's AVI_RM_MPEG_WMP Joiner gave me a seamless join ( it and Easyjoin both cost $20 on CNet) and was easy to work with...but the freeware HJSplitter successfully joined files BoilSoft rejected.

[yanon]

thanks for the reply

HJsplitter/Joiner is not for cutting up mpegs into viewable parts. It's just a generate file cutter/joiner. I have been using it for a long time. I have downloaded mpegcutter and boil's soft's cutter and joiner. I will give them a try before deciding on which to buy. How is TmgpEnc's cutting and joining function? Is it any good?

[setarip]

"I have downloaded mpegcutter and boil's soft's cutter and joiner. I will give them a try before deciding on which to buy."


MPEGCutter v.1.1.5 (MPEG2CUT.EXE) is freeware


"How is TmgpEnc's cutting and joining function? Is it any good?"

It's excellent, but MPEGCutter is many times faster...



"HJsplitter/Joiner is not for cutting up mpegs into viewable parts. It's just a generate file cutter/joiner."

Do you actually intend to view small pieces of your videos - or do you intend to (temporarily) join them and save to your hard drive for viewing?

[Deus]

TMPGEnc.......... yup yup

[nicolasrao]

Dear fellow proselytes!
That was supposed to be a joke, but I have been recently presented a few CD-R's with wonderful stuff on them and I wanted to show them to my friends on my DVD player and large screen TV/PAL.
So I embarked on a voyage which took me a lot of places. In the process I began with a few trial software with did a few things but left me ignorant, a state not to my liking! Google brought me to digital digest and since then nice things have been happening, though my older girls hate to see a conversion software in progress on a home PC!! In anycase thanks to BB and unlimited download the pleasure has been all mine!
I learned about TMPGenc and its various flavours, bit rates, frame rates and a few other things besides but was so stupid that I did not figure out a way to seamlessly cut or join most of the wmv files into SVCD! Stupid! I could fix you ei from 25 ISO to 6400ISO on film and mix you a developer to match it, but all that knowledge was useless! My darkroom was my alchemists den! Now I just have to wait for the the comp to do its thing, once I have settings right.
I got what I wanted at Nicky's, it was right under my nose in TMPGenc and having lived all my 54 years in the land the Tsunami hit-Madras! I guess it is time to thank Nicky and the software makers but after all this preamble! I am a bit short in tooth, (worn out) I would want to know what are the best attributes of an SVCD CD written at home before cutting or joining. So! Once I know what the best attributes are- then I can work on getting them! Do You?

[longpdr1]

just for splitting

I've tried a lot of different programs. If your only interest is in splitting a large video file in half for burning a VCD, try SloveigMM
(http://www.solveigmm.com/?Products&id=VideoSplitter)
This is the simplest, easiest to use program I've tried. You get it on a trial and then you have to pay for it, but the trial version is fully functional and doesn't limit you in any way.

[paglamon]

Video Redo Plus.