CD-DVD Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v2.23, by Dr. Herong Yang
Splitting/Joining MPEG Files with mpgtx
This section provides a tutorial on how to split and join MPEG files with mpgtx.
"mpgtx" offers a function to split a large MPEG file into small MPEG files. It also offers a reverse function to join small MPEG files into a large MPEG file. I tried both split and join functions with sample music MP3 file.
Split music_full.mp3 into 5 equal parts:
C:\temp>\local\bin\mpgtx -5 music_full.mp3 -b music_part Skipped -2 zeroes at start of file mpgtx: AT EOF - please stop me! mmm, this file does not start with a pack, offset: -2 use the desperate_mode switch as the first option -X to search for a header in the whole file! if you want to force the operation. May yield to an endless loop if no valid header is found! Does not even begin with a 00 00 01 xx sequence! Now processing music_full.mp3 [1/5] ... 100.00% Now processing music_full.mp3 [2/5] ... 100.00% Now processing music_full.mp3 [3/5] ... 100.00% Now processing music_full.mp3 [4/5] ... 100.00% Now processing music_full.mp3 [5/5] ... 100.00% C:\temp>dir music* 8,633,705 music_full.mp3 1,722,828 music_part-1.mp3 1,726,590 music_part-2.mp3 1,727,216 music_part-3.mp3 1,726,589 music_part-4.mp3 1,726,258 music_part-5.mp3
Split 5 MP3 files back into 1:
C:\temp>\local\bin\mpgtx -j music_part-*.mp3 Now processing music_part-1.mp3 1/5 ... 100.00% Now processing music_part-2.mp3 2/5 ... 100.00% Now processing music_part-3.mp3 3/5 ... 100.00% Now processing music_part-4.mp3 4/5 ... 100.00% Now processing music_part-5.mp3 5/5 ... 100.00% C:\temp\tmp>dir *.* 8,629,481 chunk.mp3 8,633,705 music_full.mp3 1,722,828 music_part-1.mp3 1,726,590 music_part-2.mp3 1,727,216 music_part-3.mp3 1,726,589 music_part-4.mp3 1,726,258 music_part-5.mp3
Test chunk.mp3 with MPlayer. It plays nicely!
Table of Contents
Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Format
Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Players
Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Rip Music
MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, Encoding Format
DVD (Digital Video Disc) Standard Format
TOC (Table Of Contents) on CDs
IsoBuster - A Nice CD GUI Tool
vStrip - Rip and Manipulate DVD VOB Files
►mpgtx - Manipulating MPEG Files
Downloading and Installing vStrip
Printing MPEG Encoding Information with mpgtx
Printing MP3 Encoding Information with mpgtx
Slicing MPEG Files by Play Time Ranges with mpgtx
Demuxing (Demultiplexing) MPEG Files with mpgtx
►Splitting/Joining MPEG Files with mpgtx