AccuSplit is designed to rapidly and reliably split large files and computer videos into smaller segments to allow for easy archival to external media like DVD, CD-R, Zip or floppy disks. These file segments can then be recombined at a later time into an exact copy of the original file. The application is capable of segmenting and then correctly reconstructing any file, even large Windows backup files that exceed 20GB.

AccuSplit also includes a special Video Smart Split mode that can split AVI, DV-AVI, DIVX, XVID, and MPEG-1 format files (including Video-CD) into "independently playable" segments without a lengthy video re-rendering process. Now you can split your large video files into CD-sized (or any other size) segments and play them back directly from the CD - no file reconstruction is required. In version 3.6 Video Smart Split mode offers complete support for both Type-1 and Type-2 format DV-AVI files (Digital Camcorder). Full Command Line support allows AccuSplit to perform unattended operations within batch script files.