Inconveniently sized media files

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:04:46PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I'm looking for a way, preferably from the command line, to make mp3 or
> avi files either split into smaller chunks, or combine into contiguous
> ones.
> 
> For instance, I have a long video presentation in two avi files -
> I'd like it to be one big file, but I haven't found a way to do it (I
> tried cat-ing them together, and I got one big file, but it wouldn't
> play past the boundary of the first file).

Perhaps avicat from avifile-utils can do it.  It may require the
encoding and format be exactly the same of course.  Otherwise a video
editing program should let you import both and export the combined movie
as a new file.

> In a different for instance, I have an mp3 which is a hour long, and I
> want to split it into 5 minute chunks (for easier stopping and resuming
> on my mp3 player).  Are there tools for this?  Thanks.

mp3splt - Splits MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files without reencoding

Len Sorensen
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