Can I join 2 divx files, then make one long vcd?

[DVantrease]

Here's what I'd like to do, but don't know if I can. Let's say I download a 100-minute movie in divx format, which is split into two 50-minute avi files. What I'd like to do is to combine them into one big avi, then convert them into a 1-cd VCD. First, how would I join them (I've only joined mpg unsing tmpgenc). Then, I'm assuming that if I do it at very low quality settings, I can still get 100 minutes onto 1 cd, correct? Most of these movies are very low quality divx to begin with, so I dont think I'll be losing much if I encode at a very low bitrate. So does this sound possible?

[Tommyknocker]

Sure. A couple of things you need to do. Install AviSynth on your system and turn it on in the registry.

Take this script, copy it to a Wordpad or NotePad document edit it to your path, videos, and resolution you want to join, save it as a .avs file:

AVISource("c:\video1.00.avi").BicubicResize(320,24 0)
+AVISource("c:\video2.00.avi").BicubicResize(320,2 40)

Load it into Virtual Dub as you would any other video (using all files) and run it.

[KingJohn]

Here's what I'd like to do, but don't know if I can. Let's say I download a 100-minute movie in divx format, which is split into two 50-minute avi files. What I'd like to do is to combine them into one big avi, then convert them into a 1-cd VCD. First, how would I join them (I've only joined mpg unsing tmpgenc). Then, I'm assuming that if I do it at very low quality settings, I can still get 100 minutes onto 1 cd, correct? Most of these movies are very low quality divx to begin with, so I dont think I'll be losing much if I encode at a very low bitrate. So does this sound possible?

Vdub
Load movie1
Append AVI segment > movie2

Video > direct stream copy
audio > direct stream copy
SAVE AVI

Or just convert them with TMPGEnc, and drop them into your VCD authoring program without joining them, your DVD player will play one after the other anyway.

[Tommyknocker]

Your Majesty, you reply only works if the video are identical in framerate, resolution, etc.

[DVantrease]

Thanks guys, I will try as you suggested!

[KingJohn]

Your Majesty, you reply only works if the video are identical in framerate, resolution, etc.

You assume then, that they are different ? if you download part 1 and part 2, why would they be different ?

it only takes minuets to make them both the same anyway.

[Panther96]

Maybe someone canm help me with this, as I was trying to join 2 avi files using VirtualDub, but when I tried to 'append avi segment' it said something about the audio sample rates being different so how do you make them the same ?

[KingJohn]

Maybe someone canm help me with this, as I was trying to join 2 avi files using VirtualDub, but when I tried to 'append avi segment' it said something about the audio sample rates being different so how do you make them the same ?

it had to happen, normally you don't get this problem... So now you have to save out one of them to match the other.

Quickest would be to do them both

Audio > full processing mode
Audio > conversion > 44.1Khz

Video > direct stream copy

SAVE AVI

Do this with both to match audio, if you join those without matching the audio, they will be no use.

By the way, resize has nothing to do with frames per second, which Vdub will complain about also.

[DVantrease]

Just an update, so far I've had no luck with getting this to work. Joining the 2 AVI's with vdub was no problem. But when I tried to convert the new file with DVD2SVCD, it crashes in the audio step. I'm at work right now so I cannot say the exact error, but I believe it was saying it couldn't read the Extracted_audio_1.mp2 file, and when I checked this file it was 0 bytes. I've tried both 'direct stream' and 'full stream' audio in vdub but it didn't change. I then tried converting the movie with TMPGEnc with a VERY low bitrate (700k), but it still came out around 950mb. Sigh.

[KingJohn]

Ok, if you joined them, save out the audio again, use conversion as above. Do you get it then ?