2 AVI's into one DivX or XviD File?

[Cal2002]

I have a few movies that r AVI's in two parts. i.e. CD1 and CD2. i know that i need to TMPGEnc to join and save them, but what settings would be good to se in DivX or Xvid to encode the new file. i dont want to lose quality. (is this possible) what settings for the encoder should i use to do this? or should i even try? i would like to be able to burn the final divx/xvid file to a CD. any suggestions? thanks

[Conquest10]

you can join them in virtualdub and just do a direct stream copy.

[SIRCOOKS]

https://www.videohelp.com/virtualdubedit.htm .... have fun..thats a guide to do it in v-dub...holla

[Cal2002]

oops...i meant to say Virtualdub in my first post. the problem is, i would like the final file to be around 700mb? thats why i wanted to know about the encoding part

[Conquest10]

do they add up to 700MB? or are they bigger? if they are bigger, then you are going to loose quality.

[SIRCOOKS]

dont worry bout the file size that comes out, when you encode it, using tmpgenc, it will give you the right file size, then if your burner supports overburning, then you can create the vd...holla

[Cal2002]

both AVI's joined are 1.36GB. i dont want to make a VCD or SVCD i still want to keep it an AVI. i just want to burn the single movie to one CD. what encodeing settings should i use to do this. the final needs to be around 700MB. i other (main) thing i would like to know is what will this look like after i encode it to make it a 700MB file. good/bad. if bad, how bad do u think it might look. if the final one is going to look bad its not really worth it. the orginal is a DVDRip. high HQ

[Conquest10]

it will look ok. not as good as the original, but good. better than vcd.

[Cal2002]

what divx encoder settings would be good?

[Conquest10]

use this calculator:
https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm

[Cal2002]

473 kbit. does that sound good? btw thanks for all the help so far

[Conquest10]

divx at lower bitrates will look better than mpeg at the same bitrate. try doing a little sample. then see if the quality is good enough. beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.

[antoniosgubba]

I really don't understand why you want to join em to fit on one CD in the first place! The movies have originally been made in that format deliberately to achieve a high quality.....you'll be losing a large amount of quality by compressing the movies to fit on one CD...it'll still look good, but the 2 CD versions look superb.

Basically, you'll be doing all the joining and waiting around, then losing quality, all for the sake of saving around 15p (25c) per movie. Gotta be worth that amount to keep the film in its original quality format.