Problem with joining 2 avi's together

[wibble]

Right then, downloaded a movie as 2 seperate 700mb avi files, excellent quality, very happy.

Using virtual dub I open the forst, it tells me there could be audio sync problems so I out put the audio to wav and then re-combine the video and audio to create a new version. I do this for the second half as well, making sure I use exactly the same settings as the first.

Checked them and they seem fine, all in sync etc.

I try to join them together using VD, it outputs as a single 3GB file, quite big, but should be good quality, except windows media player has a problem with it. If I try to fast forward it sometimes comes up with an error, but it always has the sound out of synch by miles.

If I let it just play it is fine. Am I doing something wrong?

[mb571]

Read this thread near the bottom.

http://forum.vcdhelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=97784&highlight=

Mark

[kjmacke]

I have found it does that to me also whenever a file is bigger than 2gig. Nothing is wrong with the file. Try another player other then media player.

[CryptKeeper]

seems you didn't reencode the audio to mpeg layer 3
and left the audio as wav

wav audio is 10 megabytes per 1 min of play
mpeg layer 3 is about 10 times smaller

suggestion

load the 1st video and wav audio into virtualdub
select Direct stream copy for Video
and Full Processing Mode for Audio
select Mpeg layer 3 along with 128 Kbits
and then save the avi to a new file

then do same for 2nd part of movie