MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Free tool to split MP4 files

Some shareware I used a lot during 2011 was really good at splitting most of the time:
SolveigMM Video Splitter (SVS), http://solveigmm.com/.

It handled key frames right (no ugly mess if you chopped between key frames, etc) and had frame perfect clipping - most of the time ....

I was mostly editing TS files from my PVR, AVI/MP4 files from digital cameras, and videos I'd converted with Handbrake, Xilisoft, or other tools.

One thing I liked about SVS was that it showed you the audio track below the video. So, you could see the places where there was silence, and this was where TV ads started and ended - great for when want to chop these out. (I hate TV ads and very rarely watch TV because of all the ads). Chop the ads out and I'm fine.

But using SVS was an exercise in bug hunting and reporting. And endless stream of bugs. An endless list of exceptions where video files would not be split right - key frames would not be handled right or it would roll back to a prior key frame (or the one prior to that) instead of cutting where you wanted it to. Sometimes an exception or 2 would be fixed in the new version, but then I'd discover that video files that worked fine with the old version would not be edited right with the new version.

They were laying patches on top of patches on top of patches. The old "squeezing a balloon full of water" problem .... you squeeze it in one place, and it pops out in another. And as time went by, each new version became less stable ... Crashing more frequently ... Their QA/QC was asleep at the wheel ....

I gave up in the end ... Maybe it's all fixed / OK now ?? I wont try it ... can't go through that again.

Moose