Splitting Mpeg2 Dolby Video Files

[briley]

I've got a number of MPEG2 files with AC3 (Dolby) audio that I want to cut up into a number of small pieces.

I do NOT want to re-compress them, just cut them up - this is partially to save time (hours!) but also to stop any quality loss.

Virtual Dub, a program I normally use, can't cut up if you have AC3 audio Shame as it splits file very fast and efficiently if not dolby sound - ie in minutes.

Anyone know any software that can do the job. Google has proved not to be my friend, nor Tocows etc.

[katana]

Did you check doom9.net?

Found the following tools, which might work (see doom9.net for the download links):

Cuttermaran 1.66 - frame accurate MPEG-2 cutting tool. Website

DVD2AVI PVAview 1.0 - special PVA preview version, used by PVACut. Website

MPEG2Cut 1.15 - special version of DVD2AVI to cut MPEG-2 videos. Website

MPEG2Schnitt 0.71 - easy to use tool to cut out commercials from MPEG-2 streams. Website

HDTVtoMPEG2 1.11 - extract video and audio streams from a (multi TV station) transport stream and save them to an MPG file. Website - Website 2

ProjectX 0.90 - demuxing tool for DVB streams. Website

PVACut 3.50 - PVA cutting tool. Website

PVAStrumento 2.1.0.15 - PVA demuxing tool. Website

[briley]

Nice list, couple there I hadn't tried.

Having spent all day on the net I found VideoReDo Plus - does just what I want. Was initially detered by reports that it would not do AC3 but that has been proved wrong and it has a 15 day free trial with all facilities - just enough for the current job.

[jsat]

Nice list, couple there I hadn't tried.

Having spent all day on the net I found VideoReDo Plus - does just what I want. Was initially detered by reports that it would not do AC3 but that has been proved wrong and it has a 15 day free trial with all facilities - just enough for the current job.

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Nero 7 Ultra [operative word is ULTRA] will do this, we do it all the time for the commecial datacasting / IPTV via satellite we do.

It is cheap and nasty but works well.

[Khun Bob]

doom9.net is one of the best resources - also virtualdub will do a h*ll of alot with video and audio - been using it for years and it is very versatile - but it is not one of the easiest packages to use - not click and go mostly - but not too hard either...

[briley]

Virtual dub will not edit AC3 files. But thanks!

VideoReDo is working excellently - and it is a 30 day free trial.

[Khun Bob]

after creating a divx from the video i use to cut and combine the ac3 and divx - i think it depends on the codecs you have - there are or were alot of hacked version of virtual dub around