diff --git a/splitter/splitter.go b/splitter/splitter.go
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+package splitter
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"errors"
+	"math"
+	"sync"
+)
+
+var ErrClosedWriter = errors.New("Writing to closed writer prohibited")
+
+// Splitter is a thread-safe writer to split multi-line output at newlines
+// and carriage-returns. For example to split program output having progress
+// lines in it like ffmpeg does.
+type Splitter struct {
+	buffer []byte
+	lock   sync.Mutex
+	output chan []byte
+
+	done bool
+}
+
+// New creates a new splitter instance and starts the analyzer routeing inside
+func New() *Splitter {
+	s := &Splitter{
+		buffer: []byte{},
+		output: make(chan []byte, 1000),
+		done:   false, // Explicit declaration though default
+	}
+
+	go s.analyze()
+
+	return s
+}
+
+// Close disables the analyzer and prevents further write to the splitter
+func (c *Splitter) Close() error {
+	c.done = true
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Subscribe returns a channel containing the output lines
+func (c Splitter) Subscribe() <-chan []byte { return c.output }
+
+// Write is a standard implementation of io.Writer returning
+// ErrClosedWriter on a write after it got closed
+func (c *Splitter) Write(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
+	if c.done {
+		return 0, ErrClosedWriter
+	}
+
+	c.lock.Lock()
+	defer c.lock.Unlock()
+
+	c.buffer = append(c.buffer, p...)
+	return len(p), nil
+}
+
+func (c *Splitter) chunk(i int) {
+	c.output <- c.buffer[0:i]
+	c.buffer = c.buffer[i+1:]
+}
+
+func (c *Splitter) analyze() {
+	for !c.done {
+		c.lock.Lock()
+
+		splits := []int{}
+		for _, chr := range []byte{'\r', '\n'} {
+			if i := bytes.IndexByte(c.buffer, chr); i > -1 {
+				splits = append(splits, i)
+			}
+		}
+
+		if i := c.minIntSlice(splits); i > -1 {
+			c.chunk(i)
+		}
+
+		c.lock.Unlock()
+	}
+
+	if len(c.buffer) > 0 {
+		c.output <- c.buffer
+	}
+
+	close(c.output)
+}
+
+func (c *Splitter) minIntSlice(in []int) int {
+	if len(in) == 0 {
+		return -1
+	}
+
+	min := math.MaxInt32
+	for _, i := range in {
+		if i < min {
+			min = i
+		}
+	}
+
+	return min
+}