Camel joining problem...........

[solidone]

Hi
I am having a problem joining files with Camel MpegJoin. The program seems to be installed properly, however when I select some mpg files to join, or even just two, then click Join, a window pops up telling me that joining is taking place, but it stays at 0%, and no joining takes place. I let it run all night just to make sure it wasn't taking a very long time, but no go.
I am running a Pentium 2.6Ghz, with 1GB RAM, and a 45GB hard drive. XPPro is the operating system.

Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks

[canadateck]

Try Cuttermaran or VideoRedo. I have never heard of Camel MpegJoin?

To join 2 Mpg Video files they Must be of the Same Specs,or it will have to be Re-encoded.

[solidone]

thanks for the reply.
perhaps my problem is that the files are NOT the same specs. They are music videos. What should I do to try and make them the same specs?

thanks

[mats.hogberg]

Tried Camel once upon a time - never got it to do anything useful at all, besides HDD fill.

/Mats

[jimmalenko]

Ahhhh Camel ....... those were the days when I was uninformed and had a million 10 or 15 second porn clips to join

[solidone]

It seems that I still have the problem of trying to encode my mpg music videos so that they are all the same specs. I looked in the tools section but there are alot of programs in there.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

[jimmalenko]

What do you wish to end up with ? Just an MPEG file for playback on your PC ? or would you be going to VCD/SVCD/DVD with this eventually ?

[solidone]

hi jim

thanks for your swift reply. what I want to do is to join together all the mpgs, then burn them onto dvd so it can be watched on a tv with a dvd player.

where are you in australia?
I'm originally from n.ireland, just transplanted.........

[jimmalenko]

OK.

TMPGEnc Plus and http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimmalenko/AVI2DVD.htm would be my tools of choice here. If going to DVD, there's actually no need to join the files up beforehand. You can just encode each file to DVD specs seperately and then let the authoring process join them automagically. Firstly check with the latest GSpot Beta though that some of these MPEGs are not DVD specs already to possibly save yourself some time.

[solidone]

Jim
I want it all to end up on a dvd, so I will get the software you suggested and see what gives. Thanks for all your help. I will not be doing it for a few days, but if I run into diffs when I do it, you might well see me back in the forum

john