Strange problem with Virtual Dub, would appreciate feedback.

[Corvid]

Hello. I've been using versions of Nan Dub & Virtual Dub for quite awhile now and I never had an issue with them until now.

The current version that I'm using is Virtual Dub 1.5.7 (build 18014). The problem that I'm having is best explained by an example.

If I have a video that's chopped into 5-6 pieces and try to use Vitual Dub to rejoin the parts, it keeps doing two things. Sometimes it joins the parts fine, but it makes the video 3 or 4 times larger than it's suppose to be. By larger, I don't mean larger in size, what I mean is that it joins the parts, then joins them again, then again, then again, and adds them onto the end of the video. So, instead of ending up with a 12-15 minutes video, I get an hour long video that is just the same 12-15 minutes, repeating itself 3 or 4 times in a row. Does that make sense?

The other problem it gives me is that often it'll join the original parts, out of sequence, even though I append them correctly. I'm not a newbie to Virtual Dub, as I've been using it for years. I just can't figure out why it started doing this.

It does the first thing I mentioned, everytime, with every version of DIVX, XVID, pretty much any codec that I've used. In fact, there hasn't been a time when it hasn't done this. At first, this version of Virtual Dub worked fine and it only started doing this recently. I'm not sure how to fix it, or if I'm doing something wrong, but I'm open to suggestions, because this is alot of headache.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Corvid]

Tried out the newest version 1.5.9 and have the same problem. Reverted back to a much older version and again, the same problem. I'm guessing some setting somewhere in the options was changed, but I've looked over everything and I can't seem to figure it out.

[Corvid]

Please, someone must know of this problem. I can't be the only one to ever experience it. I really would appreciate some kind of help, or a suggestion on an alternative software, preferably with a free trial, that I could use to join DIVX, XVID and other .avi files. Thanks.