Cannot append file in vdub.

[therock003]

So i have this segment that i want in the begging of an avi file,so i open the small segment first,and then i append the file,but i get an error,saying "cannot append audio different data format".

Well the audio of both videos is mp3 vbr,so in that case hiow do i go around it.

You see i recorded a tv show and i missed the first minute of it.Then i recorded it when it reaired,and now i want to join it,in the beginning.

[redwudz]

You mention VBR audio. That is likely your problem. It will have a different audio rate with each file every time. The safest thing to do is to save out the audio as a WAV, using full processing and convert it to CBR MP3 audio then mux it back in. If you had any plans of converting it to MPEG, that VBR would cause you problems with that encode also.

VD is very particular about audio and video rates matching exactly when appending, VBR makes that very difficult at best. Often, if the audio or video rates are not the same to 3 decimal places or more, it will reject it. You probably need to convert both of them to CBR audio to append.

It's not VD's fault, it's VBR's. If you were able to combine them as is, the audio/video sync would likely be off anyway.

[therock003]

I see,well with the conversion i will lose audio quality,so i will not do the procedure at all,it's a 5 sec segment anyway.I was just wandering if there was anyway around it,but as i thougth there isn't any,thanx for your suggestion.

[ricardouk]

have you tried avidemux? you can append files with it as well. never tried vbr but u got nothing to loose in trying it

[guns1inger]

Convert the audio in both clips to uncompressed wav (no quality loss), join, then convert back using a CBR MP3 with acceptable bitrate.