how to split these huge DVI files for burning to DVD?

[Don]

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I've just started capturing to digital my old home movie collection. My
plan is to archive the raw uncompressed dv avi files to DVD's and edit
and compress later.

I've hit the problem everyone hits when they first start this. What is
a recommended tool to split the raw avi files into smaller pieces that
can be saved economically and be easier to manage like .5-to 1.5 GB files.

I see tmpgenc mentioned in previous postings. Any gotchas with that?

I would like each one of these split avi files to stand alone as a
usable avi file and obviously I don't want any compression. I just want
a sequence of lots of smaller avi files.

btw, nospam really is a valid id if anyone wants to respond directly.
Funny how I don't get much spam there.

tks
don

 

[jt]

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Well, that operating system that everyone loves to hate lets you
memory-map arbitrarily-large files and quite trivially manage them
into smaller chunks. If the program is careful to pick cluster
boundaries, I think that no disk activity would result, except for
file-table entries. So not counting some little GUI, the program
you're looking for is a nothing. Post again if you don't find one.


don <nospam@wtez.net> wrote:

>I've just started capturing to digital my old home movie collection. My
>plan is to archive the raw uncompressed dv avi files to DVD's and edit
>and compress later.
>
>I've hit the problem everyone hits when they first start this. What is
>a recommended tool to split the raw avi files into smaller pieces that
>can be saved economically and be easier to manage like .5-to 1.5 GB files.
>
>I see tmpgenc mentioned in previous postings. Any gotchas with that?
>
>I would like each one of these split avi files to stand alone as a
>usable avi file and obviously I don't want any compression. I just want
>a sequence of lots of smaller avi files.
>
>btw, nospam really is a valid id if anyone wants to respond directly.
>Funny how I don't get much spam there.
>
>tks
>don

 

[Guest]

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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:30:52 -0600, don <nospam@wtez.net> wrote:

>I've just started capturing to digital my old home movie collection. My
>plan is to archive the raw uncompressed dv avi files to DVD's and edit
>and compress later.
>
>I've hit the problem everyone hits when they first start this. What is
>a recommended tool to split the raw avi files into smaller pieces that
>can be saved economically and be easier to manage like .5-to 1.5 GB files.

Just use VirtualDub and select to save 18 minute chunks of the
AVI file using direct video and audio copying.

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[Guest]

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don wrote:
> I've just started capturing to digital my old home movie collection.
My
> plan is to archive the raw uncompressed dv avi files to DVD's and
edit
> and compress later.
>
> I've hit the problem everyone hits when they first start this. What
is
> a recommended tool to split the raw avi files into smaller pieces
that
> can be saved economically and be easier to manage like .5-to 1.5 GB
files.
>
> I see tmpgenc mentioned in previous postings. Any gotchas with that?
>
> I would like each one of these split avi files to stand alone as a
> usable avi file and obviously I don't want any compression. I just
want
> a sequence of lots of smaller avi files.
>
> btw, nospam really is a valid id if anyone wants to respond directly.

> Funny how I don't get much spam there.
>
> tks
> don

Do a google for 'File Splitter' and you'll find a bunch of no-frills
tools that do the simple job of chopping and rejoining files.