How to make one .avi from a two disc set?

[TheMoreYouKnow]

I’ve conquered all my easy backups and now I’m on the more complicated ones so expect a question every couple of days. Gone With The Wind is one of my two disc movies and I would like to end up with one .avi file. This question has certainly been answered already but I can’t find it. Any suggestions?

[t0nee1]

Merge them with DVDShrink, but no menus, and convert to avi with say, Autogk...Or Merge them and create avi with DVDFab...
http://dvdshrink.info/compilation.php

[Baldrick]

Or convert to two avi files and then just join using virtualdub(video->direct stream copy, audio->direct stream copy,file->append) or avidemux(video->copy, audio->copy,file->append).

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Or convert to two avi files and then just join using virtualdub(video->direct stream copy, audio->direct stream copy,file->append) or avidemux(video->copy, audio->copy,file->append).

This is the method I tried but kept getting a “(audio or video) streams have different data formats” error. Would it make sense to AutoGK them at 100% video quality with a matching fixed width and 320CBR mp3 and maybe then VirtualDub (or would you re VirtualDubMod?) will allow me to append. Then AutoGK the combined file to the desired final size?

[jman98]

Would it make sense to AutoGK them at 100% video quality with a matching fixed width and 320CBR mp3 and maybe then VirtualDub (or would you re VirtualDubMod?) will allow me to append. Then AutoGK the combined file to the desired final size?

Use t0nee1's suggestion instead of this. Every time you encode you are lowering the quality. For best results you'd like to get that number of encodes down to 1.

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Merge them with DVDShrink, but no menus, and convert to avi with say, Autogk...Or Merge them and create avi with DVDFab...
http://dvdshrink.info/compilation.php

But wouldn’t AutoGK still see the compilation as two “episodes” on one disc?

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Baldrick, one more question, do you ever sleep? I see your responses on almost every question and the two I’ve posted you’ve answered within minutes. Clearly you are an asset to the community so THANK YOU!

Knowledge defines humanity so teaching is the most humane act.

[t0nee1]

With Shrink you'll be creating a single DVD from a 2-disc set...AutoGK will treat it as such...Why don't you just try it?..Nothing to lose but a little time right?...

[dragonkeeper]

Most likely if you are trying to encode each disk separately with an automated process, the utility that you are using is specifying different settings for each disk. I usually Grab all the VOBs for the main movie using DGindex (or similar tool), create a .d2v, use VFAPI Reader to encode that into a dummy avi, use VirtualDub to encode the dummy avi. This is the old school way of doing things aka long way. But i have yet to have this method fail on me.