Mpeg2 editing software?

[arus2001]

Picked up a USB dongle for streaming/recording stuff, but in general, my PC doesn't feel strong enough to do quality streaming. However, I've got plenty of space to actually record and just upload stuff of decent quality later. Main problem is Youtube has a 10m limit per upload and things I'm recording can wind up being 30m or more. As one might guess, I need something that'll let me easily trim my larger files into smaller chunks. Now, I'd tried Windows Movie Maker, but not only did its functionality seem shitty, it took forever do anything with a 45m file. Figure if I can at least get things into the smaller pieces, I can use that to make the youtube uploads.

So, just wondering if someone has some suggestions for free programs without trial limitations and whatnot.

[Wesleydimble]

Are you okay with a command-line interface? If so, FFmpeg is pretty great.

[arus2001]

If the commands are sensible enough, I don't really mind. I'll look into it and see. But if it turns out I basically have to learn some code language a la Spellcast, it's not gonna help me much.

[Wesleydimble]

You do have to read a bit of documentation, and maybe search out related examples, but once you have found the commands it pretty much runs on automatic.
The wiki has some pretty detailed guides for various things (though maybe not exactly what you are looking to do): ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki

You talked about splitting stuff up into 10m chunks. Here's an example which gets the first chunk:

ffmpeg -i input.flv -acodec copy -vcodec copy -fs 10485760 output.flv

It seems to be easier to make commands which take timestamps rather than filesizes, so maybe don't actually use this example at all. This page on the wiki talks about seeking by time: ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/Seeking%20with%20FFmpeg

You can do much more if you don't mind doing a little reading. I haven't done much myself; just reencoded stuff to save space on disk.