joining avis

[paulh129]

Please could someone help me. I am trying to join 2 avi files together but they wont join because the data rates are different one is 195 kbps and the other is 162 kbps is this the problem and how do i ovecome this to be able to join them to convert them to dvd.
Thanks in advance

[steveryan]

You can do this two ways -

Use Virtualdub re-encode one of the AVI's to the same bitrate as the other, join them (Virtualdub again) then convert to DVD or convert the seperate files to DVD then join them together. In the words of my uncle Veron - "the choice is yours".

[jimmalenko]

I'd convert them seperately to DVd-compliant MPEG then let your authoring software join them.

[mh2360]

I'd convert them seperately to DVd-compliant MPEG then let your authoring software join them.

Yep, even if your AVI's *could* be joined, I have found that joining AVIs can create a loss of audio sync at the join...

[paulh129]

Thanks for all the help will give them a try to see the best method that suits the files.
Thanks again to all

[celtic_druid]

AVISynth:

part1 = avisource("part1.avi")
part2 = avisource("part2.avi")
return part1++part2