I have a movie in avi format that I want to burn to VCD. It is too big
for one CD. Is there a freeware avi splitter so I can put it on two
disks?

TIA

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Paul Blarmy wrote:
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|I have a movie in avi format that I want to burn to VCD. It is too big
|for one CD. Is there a freeware avi splitter so I can put it on two
|disks?

AviSplitCalc
http://ia.microdee.net

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Paul Blarmy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> I have a movie in avi format that I want to burn to VCD. It is too big
> for one CD

As you will have to convert to MPEG-1 anyway you can simply do that in 2
steps with TMPGenc. First convert the first half, then the second half.

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On 18 Nov 2003 11:57:19 GMT, Onno wrote...

> As you will have to convert to MPEG-1 anyway you can simply do that in 2
> steps with TMPGenc. First convert the first half, then the second half.

Thanks for the response, but according to the TMPGenc website my PC spec
is a bit lacking in ooomph to perform very well with their product.

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On 17 Nov 2003 22:44:52 -0000, Anonymous wrote...

> AviSplitCalc
> http://ia.microdee.net

Will have a look - thanks.

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Paul Blarmy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>> As you will have to convert to MPEG-1 anyway you can simply do that
>> in 2 steps with TMPGenc. First convert the first half, then the
>> second half.
>
> Thanks for the response, but according to the TMPGenc website my PC
> spec is a bit lacking in ooomph to perform very well with their
> product.
>

I don't know your PC specs, but if you really want to make a VCD, you
have to convert to MPEG, VCD compliant MPEG, to be exact. There's no way
around that.
FYI, I have used TMPGenc without any problems on my old Celeron 400
system with 64 mB RAM. It required patience, but the result was good. My
guess is that even with a slower CPU it will still work.
If you just want to cut an avi into two avi files, I would suggest
Virtualdub.

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On 18 Nov 2003 23:26:52 GMT, Onno <ok-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I don't know your PC specs, but if you really want to make a VCD, you
>have to convert to MPEG, VCD compliant MPEG, to be exact. There's no way
>around that.
>FYI, I have used TMPGenc without any problems on my old Celeron 400
>system with 64 mB RAM. It required patience, but the result was good. My
>guess is that even with a slower CPU it will still work.
>If you just want to cut an avi into two avi files, I would suggest
>Virtualdub.

Cutting an AVI into 2 parts will take only a few minutes, using Direct
Stream Copy.

If you insist on converting an AVI into mpg, it will take you hours,
literally.

Cheers,

just get virtualdub... it's the best splitting utility there is...

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/vir...procedures.htm

On 18 Nov 2003 23:26:52 GMT, Onno wrote...

> If you just want to cut an avi into two avi files, I would suggest
> Virtualdub.

Thanks - have d/l this and it seems to work OK after a bit of head
scratching and reading the guidance website several times!

Only thing is, first part plays OK but the second part the sound is out
of synch (badly) with the video.

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Paul Blarmy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> On 18 Nov 2003 23:26:52 GMT, Onno wrote...
>
> > If you just want to cut an avi into two avi files, I would suggest
> > Virtualdub.
>
> Thanks - have d/l this and it seems to work OK after a bit of head
> scratching and reading the guidance website several times!
>
> Only thing is, first part plays OK but the second part the sound is out
> of synch (badly) with the video.


I also tried VirtualDub and had mixed results. My original AVI file was
44MB and I wanted to cut it in half. The resulting file seemed a little
out of sync, the image quality was reduced, and the file size jumped
to 1.5 Gigs. I don't know if this is typical, but the experience
put me off using it again.

Ibn