SPLITMOV

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 12 September 1995
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NAME

splitmov - split media streams from a QuickTime or AVI file
mergmov - merge media streams into a QuickTime or AVI file
catmov - concatenate QuickTime or AVI files into a file

SYNOPSIS

splitmov [ -s ] [ -v movie-file ] [ [-h] -a sound-file ] src
mergemov [ -v movie-file ] [ -a sound-file ] dst
catmov [ -s ] src [ ... ] dst

DESCRIPTION

splitmov extracts media streams from QuickTime or AVI file src and put them into separate files. The video stream is put into a movie-file (.mov or .avi) and the audio stream is put into a sound-file (.au or .wav file). The audio data in QuickTime/AVI file recorded by ShowMe TV is mono, 8 kHz (sampling rate), 8-bit (sample size) and u-law encoded. To play a movie recorded by ShowMe TV on Mac or PC, you should use JPEG video codec from ShowMe TV version 2.0 and then convert audio data to Mac or PC acceptable audio format. sox is a public domain software that you need for audio conversion. Unless the -s option is specified, the movie information from src is always listed (stdout).

mergemov combines video stream from a movie-file and audio stream from sound-file into a single movie file dst. The audio stream in movie-file is always ignored.

catmov concatenate multiple movie files src into a single movie file dst. All the source movie files must have the same video CODEC and same audio characteristics. Although it allows movies with different frame rate to be concatentated, this feature is not portable, especially for AVI file. Unless the -s option is specified, the movie information of each src is always listed (stdout).

OPTIONS

-s: If this option is specified, it supresses movie information being reported. This option is only available to splitmov and catmov.
-v movie-file: If this option is specified, the video stream (if any) will be output to movie-file. movie-file should have .mov suffix for QuickTime file or .avi for AVI file.
-a sound-file: If this option is specified, the audio stream (if any) will be output to sound-file. sound-file should have .au suffix for Sun/Next audio file format, or .wav for Wave file format.
src: A QuickTime or AVI file created by the recording feature in ShowMe TV.
dst: A QuickTime or AVI file to be created.

EXAMPLE

To convert QuickTime movie from ShowMe TV for Mac:

    splitmov -s -a tmp1.au src.mov

    sox tmp1.au -r 11127 -s -w -c 1 tmp2.au

    mergemov -v src.mov -a tmp2.au dst.mov

To convert QuickTime movie from ShowMe TV to AVI for PC:

    splitmov -s -a tmp1.au src.mov

    sox tmp1.au -r 11025 -u -b -c 1 tmp2.wav

    mergemov -v src.mov -a tmp2.wav dst.avi

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