Recommend - Best MPEG splitter.

[axolotls]

I have a couple of large mpeg2 files (w/ AC3 somehow encoded in there) and would like to split portions of it out to use elsewhere.

What's the best "Free/Shareware" program that you all can recommend to me.

I see a bunch in the tools section.

TIA!!

[Grimey]

TMPGEnc. Mpeg tools in the file menu.

[axolotls]

Thanks.

I tried that last night, but it only split the Video. Don't know why. I think it might be because AC3 was embedded in the stream.

[Tommyknocker]

Best freeware in my opinion would be AviSynth. Take a while to learn it, but I haven't found a better way to do what it does.

[gshelley61]

MPEG2Schnitt and Cuttermaran are both free and will do what you are asking about (the AC3 will remain intact, too). You have to demux first, though. And they cut and join at certain frames only (not frame-accurate editing). I use VOBEdit or TMPGEnc MPEG Tools to demux. The new file is not re-encoded, so there is no quality loss, either.

For frame-accurate MPEG editing, there is no free program that I know of. Womble MPEG-VCR and MPEG Video Wizard are the great for that and do not re-encode your new file (except at the edit points).

[axolotls]

Thanks. MPEG-VCR seems to be working for what I need! Using the evaluation version