On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 06:39:14PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > Rolf Ernst <rolf.ernst <at> silverlightning.org> writes: > > > I have a sample but the smallest one is 400MB. I can find some place to put > > it if that helps. > > Please read http://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html "Submitting Sample Media" If you really feel completely unable to use dd or some other program to cut the file (there are even GUI ones, they are actually for splitting files but you can just take the first chunk) you can still upload to the ftp server and just abort the upload after about 10 MB.