Divide video file into 4 equal pieces

[slim142]

I have a video file which I want to play into four screens (four screens make one big square).

I want each screen to play a piece of the video, but because of software limitations, I need it so that I have something like:

video1.mp4
video2.mp4
video3.mp4
video4.mp4

Video1 would be the top left part of the video. Video2 would be top right, video 3 bottom left and video 4 bottom right. So that when all four files play at the same time on the screens, its the whole video as if it was one screen.

I hope I explained myself clearly.

Is there any software that will let me do this for free?

 

[RCoon]

For free? Possibly not, although I get the impression Avidemux can probably do it (free). I'm pretty sure I could do it in Sony Movie Studio Platinum by pan/cropping the video four times with precise resolutions and X,Y coords.

I don't understand why you'd need to do this in the first place. Provided all four screen are plugged into the same GPU, you could set them up in a proper multi-display group and just maximise video to stretch across all four monitors. Achieves the same thing in a fraction of the time.

 

[slim142]

To answer the second part, because of the way our screen setup is and the software it is using to run our project. We cant do much about it.

I'll check out avidemux and the sony suite (if they happen to have a trial version).

I know what Im asking is hard to achieve, but if I need to find a paid program, I will most likely buy it, use it for this project and then keep it for my personal use (this is a company project).

 

[cdawall]

Multidisplay group would be so much easier instead of trying a software fix on a hardware issue.