There are many reasons to cut or split a video file. For example, one may want to cut a long video into multiple parts to upload to YouTube. I first ran into [this](http://superuser.com/questions/31135/split-mpeg-video-from-command-line) and [this](http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-do-you-split-mpg-files-using-a-ffmpeg-command-542607/), which suggests: However, for some reason my out file is almost as large as my in file, even though I’m read more
