What's the best .mpg joiner and BATCH demuxer (100 clips)

[Eug]

My DVD-RAM MPEG-2 camcorder creates a new clip everytime I start and stop recording. I can get a bazillion separate clips quite quickly. I might have say 80 clips of 20 seconds each on a single side of a disc.

Two questions:

1) What does everyone use for merging .mpgs?

2) What is the easiest batch demuxer?

(Windows is fine, but also interested in Mac OS X stuff. Not interested in Linux software.)

[Eug]

P.S. In terms of the joiner software, I'm NOT interested in editing it.

All I want is to be able to throw an entire directory of 80 clips together and have them all sequentially merged together.

That way I could just demux the entire merged stream to .m2v and .mp2 later for editing as one great big file. (This would save me the batch demuxing process I asked about above.)

I'm guessing that TMPGenc would require manually stitching together all the files, no?

[sterno]

As I recall (I haven't used it in a while), the tmpgenc merge/cut tool lets you add all the MPEGs to produce a merged file in one step.

[drewson99]

my advice is to use tmpgenc, but the end of the resultant file will be out of audio synch. the way around this, I have found, is to merge files in groups of around 1000 seconds, then merge those into one big one. this keeps the synch issue unnoticeable.