The audio streams have different sampling rates, blah blah

[Kobong]

Here's what I did:

- I cut a few scenes from a movie using VirtualDubMod in full processing mode, encoding it with Xvid. I did this because I wanted the parts to be exactly as long as I wanted them to be.
- I disabled the original audio streams (VBR mp3, but this is irrelevant I guess) in each of them and added my own streams in CBR mp3 128 kbps
- I tried to append those segments in VDM, but for a reason unbeknownst to me the program says "cannot append segment [filename]. The audio streams have different sampling rates (16000.0000 vs 15999.00000)". This makes no sense as all the streams are EXACTLY THE SAME.
- then I tried to do the same in AviDemux and although it didn't say anything about "different sampling rates", the sound at the end of each part was cut off by about 0.5 sec.
- THEN I converted all the segments with AVS Video Converter (to make sure they are all using the same codecs etc.) and repeated steps 3 and 4. The results were idenctical.

Can anyone help? I'm starting to get really pissed off. All I want is a single file with all the clips joined

[Midzuki]

Here goes my humble wild guess:

What application/method did you use for creating the CBR mp3s?
It seems to me that "15999.00000" is ABR, not CBR.

[Kobong]

I used iMagic Audio Editor 2005 and I've just checked it and the output format is definitely set to CBR.

[manono]

Can you create the audio in something else, such as BeSweet/BeLight or HeadAC3he?

Or perhaps join the video segments, create the audio all at once as one long file, and then mux the 2?

[Kobong]

Can you create the audio in something else, such as BeSweet/BeLight or HeadAC3he?

Or perhaps join the video segments, create the audio all at once as one long file, and then mux the 2?

The programs you mentioned are AC3 - mp3/etc. converters as far as I know, so I'm not going to convert the files to AC3 and THEN to something else

The other idea is good and for some reason it didn't occur to me.

[manono]

The programs you mentioned are AC3 - mp3/etc. converters as far as I know

Yes, that's right, but I don't know what iMagic Audio Editor 2005 is or what you were doing to create the audio. My point was that perhaps it was responsible for creating audio with slightly different sample rates, different enough to prevent them from being joined. Maybe Audacity could do the job for you. It's a good (and free) WAV Editor.

But if creating the audio and video separately before muxing works, then so much the better.