Splitting: parts (.001 etc.) vs. discrete vids

[reneartois]

Hi. I'm familiar with HJsplit, and have used it for uploads and downloads, but I'm not savvy with file manipulation beyond that. Reassembling the pieces is easy to do, but a very large video requires many pieces, so is very time-consuming to download. So I'm wondering why don't more uploaders break a big video into smaller discrete playable video files? Is that a harder process? (I don't even know how it's done.) Is it simply that most users prefer to end up with one complete video rather than several? The advantage, of course, is that you can download just the last one in the bunch to see if you like the scene's grand finale, before spending the time to download the rest.

I'm not complaining, mind you; I'm just curious why only a minority of uploaders do it this way. Thanks everyone for all the great content you provide.

[safn1949]

I prefer a large video so that I don't have to stop and play multiple clips to see the action,I can always fast forward thru 1 large clip.

[Bobby Coke]

So I'm wondering why don't more uploaders break a big video into smaller discrete playable video files? Is that a harder process? (I don't even know how it's done.)

If you have the right program - namely Boilsoft Video Splitter - it's quite easy, but honestly, there's a little bit more work involved than splitting files with HJ Split...

The advantage, of course, is that you can download just the last one in the bunch to see if you like the scene's grand finale, before spending the time to download the rest.

See, I thought this too, and for a couple of weeks I started uploading videos split into separate playable avi clips rather than HJ ones. To be honest, I don't think I got any comments either in support of this or against it, so I just went back to the trusted HJ Split way...

If more people want separate avi clips for bigger files, I'm more than happy to upload them like that, but to this point I haven't heard enough of a demand for it.