Avi splitter wanted

[Paul Blarmy]

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

 

[Anonymous]

Paul Blarmy wrote:
|
|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

-=-

 

[Onno]

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.

 

[Paul Blarmy]

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.

 

[Paul Blarmy]

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

AviSplitCalc
http://ia.microdee.net

Will have a look - thanks.

 

[Onno]

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.

 

[Sumairp]

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,

 

[Mike Henley]

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

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/virtualdub_procedures.htm

 

[Paul Blarmy]

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.

 

[Ibn Battuta]

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


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

 

[Onno]

(e-mail address removed) (Ibn Battuta) wrote in

I can't explain why this happened in the second part only, but what you
can try with out of sync audio is this:

- save audio as WAV file
- audio > WAV audio
- audio > compression > choose your compression, e.g. MP3
- video > direct stream copy (of course)

This is what Virtualdub advises when it encounters an avi with VBR MP3
audio. I have tried this method with succes.

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.

That's because you apparently reencoded the video.
Choose for both video and audio direct stream copy.
If the audio is still out of sync, see above.

 

[Paul Blarmy]

On 20 Nov 2003 09:25:41 GMT, Onno wrote...

I can't explain why this happened in the second part only, but what you
can try with out of sync audio is this:

- save audio as WAV file
- audio > WAV audio
- audio > compression > choose your compression, e.g. MP3
- video > direct stream copy (of course)

This is what Virtualdub advises when it encounters an avi with VBR MP3
audio. I have tried this method with succes.

Thanks very much for taking the time to reply with that. I will give it a
go and see if it works for me.

Thanks again.