Jun 25 2008
Free File Splitter (simple to use!)
My sister recently asked me to record a two hour gymnastics show for her. She didn’t have the equipment to record it herself. No biggie, right? Well, I haven’t used my VCR in about five years and didn’t have any blank tapes. The show started in 20 minutes.
I have Media Center 2005 on my machine, and I record shows for home use all the time . . . so I decided to record the gymnastics and see if I could create a DVD for her. Everything went smoothly until Media Center spit an error in my face. It read something like, “Your file is too big to put on a DVD, Stupid!”
So, I looked around, found where MCE stores video files, then tried double clicking it. Windows Media Player opened it right up. “Hmmmmmm,” I thought. “I could email her file and all she’d have to do is double-click it!” I now only had one problem left to overcome. How in the world was I supposed to send a 7GB file?
After a period of searching, I decided the best method was to split the file, burn two DVDs and send them to her in the mail.
I searched a bit and found a free program called GSplit. I downloaded it, stuck with the default options, split the file, and all of a sudden three files sat upon my desktop. I couldn’t watch either video file by clicking on them, but when I clicked the third file (a small executable created by GSplit), it magically re-joined the two files and restored them to the original 7GB file.
Thank you GDG Software!
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