Converting 2 Avi-Files Into 3 SVCD's

[Amaze]

will I need to join the two avi-files together before I can convert? if so, is there anyway to do it without that annoying beep that occurs when joining with tmpgenc? at least that's what I got the last time I joined...

[reboot]

Join the two avi's in virtualdub first.

[ZippyP.]

Join the two avi's in virtualdub first.

And you can frameserve it too, no need to save an intermediate file.

[Amaze]

what about the subtitles?

[FOO]

Turn the speakers off and you won't get the annoying beep

[reboot]

what about the subtitles?

What ABOUT the subtitles?...
You want them, you don't want them, you have them, you don't have them...?
What is the source of the avi's?

[Amaze]

yea, I want them, they're in two separate .srt-files, the source-files are in xvid-format...

edit:

one solution I guess, would be to change the times in the 2nd .srt-file, but that's A LOT of work. so I'm hoping there's a way I could "stream" the subs into the joined file while joining?

[reboot]

If your source xvid's have the subs, why are you separating them?
One re-encode to DivX, at it's highest bitrate (or use huffyuv) to join the two, then do what you will with the finished output, subs intact.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but it sounds like you're making a simple joining of two files into a complicated mess with extracted subs, etc.
If the source is actually a dvd, then I would use a different ripper that will embed the subs into it's avi output.

[Amaze]

I don't have the actual source, the dvd, I only have the two xvid-files and their subs

[Amaze]

also, the 2nd file has almost twice as high bitrate as the first one, will this affect anything other than looking better? will it screw up the joining?

[reboot]

I don't know how you're going to mux the subs into the video stream...
Having two different bitrates shouldn't make any difference, one will just be higher quality than the other.
If you can't join because of the different bitrates, then run one of them thru vdub to make it the same bitrate, same codec as the other, then join.

[Amaze]

it worked, I just gotta work out the cd2-subs..thankfully it's not that many subs, but synching them up is a real bitch...