We sometimes need to split a video into segments so as to, say, upload to share with others on websites like Youtube which has a limit for uploading video of 2GB size and 10 minutes length. Then a video splitter which can automatically do that for you as long as you set the splitting specification like splitting by certain video duration or size will be very convenient. Following are some free software tools that let you split your video file to however many parts as you like at a time.

MKV Merge GUI for splitting MKV

MKV Merge GUI allows you to split the video file by duration as well as by size. You can download the MKV Toolnix here; then install it and run the MKV Merge GUI (mmg.exe). Here is a detail tutorial for using it to spit a large MKV file.

MKV Merge GUI

The MKV Toolnix is cross-platform, so it is applicable in Windows, Mac and Linux.

VirtualDub for AVI

To split by size in VirtualDub, just specify the size of segments. E.g. if you had a 1GB file and you split by 200mb, you would have 5 segments. This can be done by File->Save Segmented AVI and then get the following dialog box:

split AVI file in VirtualDub

It can also split by duration but is roundabout. There is an option in the above dialog box to split by max frames. If you know the fps of the video which can be found out using use MediaInfo or VirtualDub’s file information and then calculate the duration to get the frames.

E.g. 23.976 fps footage x 60 seconds/minute x 20minutes = 28771 frames

Tip: Don’t forget to set the video & audio to “direct stream copy” in the Video and Audio tabs on the main menu bar.

Yamb for MP4/M4V/MOV/3GP

Yamb can split MP4, M4V, MOV and 3GP files by duration or size.

split video in YAMB

MPG2Cut2 for MPEG

MPG2Cut2 lets you split MPG/MPEG2/MPEG1 video by duration. To spliting a DVD to small clips in order to upload to Youtube, you can use VOB2MPG to join all the Vobsets in the VIDEO_TS folder to get an MPEG2 file of the main movie and then use MPG2Cut2 to cut the file to as many clips as you like (should be 10 minutes clips for Youtube).

Mpg2Cut2

Note: If you are seeking for ways to split a DVD 9 to two DVD 5, please refer to this article. Or if you want to directionally split your DVDs and at the same time output as whatever format you want, Please check our powerful DVD ripper and the tutorial for its splitting feature.

automatically split video, free MKV/MP4/AVI/MPG splitter, free split video, free split video to small parts/clips, split DVD, split video by duration/size, upload video to Youtube