Split Large MKV For Easy Transfer

Blu-ray rips are big.

I have a 16G USB thumb drive.

To split the large MKV up into usable chunks created a gzipped tar file, split, move it to the HTPC, join the parts back together, and uncompress it:
> tar -czvf movie.mkv.tgz Movie.mkv
> split -b 12000000000 "movie.mkv.tgz" "movieparts.mkv.tgz.part-"

Will create smaller files called:
movieparts.mkv.tgz.part-aa
movieparts.mkv.tgz.part-ab
etc...

To rejoin:
> cat movieparts.mkv.tgz.part-* > movie.mkv.tgz
> tar -xvf movie.mkv.tgz

And delete the part and tgz files.

Watch movie on HDTV with XBMC or OpenELEC.

MakeMKV on PCLinuxOS

Well....goodbye Mandriva. Back to good ol' PCLOS. 32-bit, but I only have 3G RAM anyways. So now I need to build MakeMKV again.

Need to install these:

• make
• glibc
• glibc-devel
• libopenssl
• libopenssl-devel
• zlib
• zlib1-devel
• libqt4-devel
• automoc4
• libmesagl1-devel
• gcc-c++
• libexpat1-dev

And....we're back.

Mandriva & MakeMKV

Well, having done a fresh install of Mandriva 2010.1, I needed to install all the development packages so that I can install MakeMKV. Since they only list the required packages if using something like Ubuntu, it takes some searching to figure exactly what is needed on Mandriva. So, here is the list of packages needed to build MakeMKV. This is only the basic list; a number of additional dependent packages will be installed as well:

• lib64qt4
• lib64qt4-devel
• libstdc++-devel
• automoc4
• lib64mesagl1-devel
• gcc-c++
• lib64openssl1.0.0-devel
• make

This is for a 64-bit system obviously.