[mythtvnz] Help required with Ticket #7984:

[Jean-Francois Pirus]

> Does anyone have a means of generating a suitable sample, assuming I'm not
> the only one with this problem, and can either post is somewhere for Chris
> Pinkham to play with or can tell me how to do it? As a last resort I'll
> use 'dd' but there must be an easier way!!

You could use split
ie:
split -b 100m FILENAME FILENAME_
that will split the file in 100Mb chunks, then pick a chunk.

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