What is the best software to split and join avi files?

What is the best software to split and join avi files without losing quality (lossless) in Windows?

darthvader

Posted 2009-07-20T08:21:43.440

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Dupe: http://superuser.com/questions/9048/what-is-the-best-software-to-split-and-join-avi-files

– random – 2009-11-05T15:17:41.420

4You might want to specify what platform you are after. – Bruce McLeod – 2009-07-20T08:23:45.213

Answers

On Windows, VirtualDub should be able to do this. Check out this guide for in-depth guide on how to split videos.

The creatively named Easy Video Splitter can apparently do the job easier, but I have never used it so i would not know first hand.

Josh Hunt

Posted 2009-07-20T08:21:43.440

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On Windows, you can use VirtualDub. On Linux, there is a very similar program called AviDemux2

Milan Babuškov

Posted 2009-07-20T08:21:43.440

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appears that AviDemux works on Windows, as well... – rogerdpack – 2010-11-30T01:56:14.483

1And VirtualDub is an opensource product as well. – Chathuranga Chandrasekara – 2009-07-20T09:23:11.030

Without a doubt, VirtualDub is the way to go.

Open the first AVi in VirtualDub
Select "Direct Stream Copy" for both video and audio
In the file menu, choose Append AVI Segment (or similarly named)
File -> Save As and give your avi a new name

Bingo! I have done this many times. The only gotcha is to be aware that the dimensions, codecs, bitrates, etc. all need to be the same or your new video file will behave, lets say, strangely. Or not at all.

Goyuix

Posted 2009-07-20T08:21:43.440

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What OS?

On linux, you can use mencoder:

mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o output.avi input1.avi input2.avi

DaveParillo

Posted 2009-07-20T08:21:43.440

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I've been searching this command for ages! – cweiske – 2011-06-28T17:39:56.857

mplayer/mencoder runs on windows from a long time :) – Remus Rigo – 2013-01-26T11:17:25.230

I'm using Windows Vista. – None – 2009-11-05T15:15:46.680

Then I would use VLC - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

– DaveParillo – 2009-11-05T15:17:56.443

For Windows: Virtualdub. No contest.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

Can do lossless splitting and joining to, which is very fast, by doing no re-enconding (but it can then only split on key-frames, obviously, and both parts joined must use the same encoding).

Lennart Regebro

Posted 2009-07-20T08:21:43.440

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can it do re-encoding for splitting? – rogerdpack – 2010-11-30T04:36:35.313

yes, obviously. – Lennart Regebro – 2010-12-11T04:17:39.323

Quality after split is problem, because you must reencoded new file. But it depends on what coded used in AVI file.

VirtualDub

windows only

MicTech

Posted 2009-07-20T08:21:43.440

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for me, direct stream copy still gives me between i-frames, but "smart rendering" (if another video codec is selected) gives the right sequence. – rogerdpack – 2010-11-30T04:43:06.880

3That is no problem if you use VirtualDub with "Direct stream copy" instead of "Full processing mode" – Daniel Rikowski – 2009-07-20T08:41:05.063

Avidemux

Florin Andrei

Posted 2009-07-20T08:21:43.440

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You can easily achieve this with the Quicktime player (you might need pro), but a lot of people don't like simply because the UI looks out of place on windows.

Bruce McLeod

Posted 2009-07-20T08:21:43.440

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Avidemux is a very powerful and handy video editing software. It supports all common file types locally. Is's most powerful ability is cutting/joining videos without re-encoding.

afelaho

Posted 2009-07-20T08:21:43.440

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If you can pay. then "AVS Video Remake" is best choice for Novice Users. This software is awesome if you are concerned about the Output Quality. I have tried many, but I found AVS Video Remake is the Best One.

Curious Apprentice

Posted 2009-07-20T08:21:43.440

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