Hey,

Just wondering if anyone knows something that will take a video and split it up into 10 minute sections automatically an out it out into one folder.

I have tried searching google but didn't really find much, certainly none that worked.

Sometimes with these sort of things, people's recommendations are much better than searching, people already know which ones are best, most efficient, free etc.

Thanks.

Oh, btw if anyone is interested I am intending to cut up all my Japanese DVD's and episodes of things I own into 5 or 10 minute chunks and then put them all into a playlist and have it on shuffle, creating my own mini tv-station I can have running on my desktop.

I want to shuffle them up because it breaks the tedium of having 1 whole film playing on my computer at a time. Also it will save me from watching the first 30 mins of the films over and over again.

DVD movies are generally broken into "chapters". Most chapters are 10-15 minutes long.

Look into a program that breaks up a video based on those; must be one available, and will have the advantage that you won't cut half way through a sentence.

I think you can do that with FFMPEG but I'm not sure how...

If you're interested in having a "mini-tv station" I have a python script that does just that, I think I'll post it with instructions in a seperate thread.

It's much better than just randomizing things in a playlist. It picks a random series based on how long it has been since that particular series has been played (longer it has been, the higher the probability, also the more episodes in the series the higher probabillty) and plays an episode from that series, then chooses another random series and repeats. Heres and example to make it more clear:

Script picks Game Center CX
Plays episode 1

Script picks Code Geass
Plays episode 1

...

Script picks Game Center CX
Plays episode 2

...

etc

This way everything is automated and appears like a television channel with everything "airing" in order. Maybe I could even make a way to put in adverts?

I hope that makes sense =)

I'll need to edit the script to make it a but more user friendly, but I'll post it soon =D

doom9.org

answers all your questions. I only really know very very basic stuff but if you sift through all their programs (all freeware/GNU stuff, like software oughtta be) you should be able to find what you need.

off the top of my head the name of the program was vobsub or something, that does avi splitting.

Thanks for the doom9 link liosama, it looks as if there is lots of interesting stuff there! I haven’t found the splitter yet but I will continue my search after posting this reply.

Bombpersons: I remember reading your original thread when you were starting out with the TV script idea and was very interested back then but assumed that it would all be over by head (it still probably is). Obviously this would be better than splitting video at time intervals as it would prevent sentence cut-off, so I will head straight over to your other thread and read you instructions to see if I am able .

I still might want to split the DVD’s I own up into chapters though as I could use them as mini-episodes, I only own a couple of Anime’s you see, but it would still be cool to have all of the films playing chronologically.

Thanks guys.