how to join h.264 avi file with mp3 sound file

[skidog]

i've captured an old VHS with my PVR150 mpeg card in the best quality possible then compressed the video with virtualdub mpeg2 to h.264 in .avi

I couldn't do the audio at the same time cause the codec i wanted wasn't showing up in the audio compression field so i just slip the wav off and compressed it on my own and removed some hiss in sound forge.

BUT if i try to select the .mp3 audio file and then convert the video to h.264 with the mp3 file attached the video blow's up from 10mb to 365mb????? wtf?

So, i compressed video, h.264 video in a .avi shell on it's own with no sound, and my compressed sound in .mp3 but how do i join them ? I tried opening the compressed video back up in virtualdub to just do a direct stream copy of it and the audio selected from the file but it won't read the video after it's compressed to h.264 so i'm lost.

The only other way i've found to do it is to convert the .mpg capture to an uncompressed RGB in .avi that's 60gb and use gordian knot to compress the video to h.264 while it mux's the pre compressed audio aswell.

Help

[jagabo]

In VirtualDubMod, open your x.264 AVI file, add the mp3 audio file, put audio and video both in Direct Stream Copy mode, save as AVI.

[skidog]

virtualdub mod will let me import it in direct stream copy mode but i don't think you can control audio in virtualdub mod

virtualdub mpeg2 won't import the video at all i just get this (attached pic)

[skidog]

ok, nevermind i got it in virtualdub mod, i forgot about the stream list thingy

But now i'm having trouble and getting error's when i try to encode more then 60 seconds of video

[guns1inger]

If you are just muxing in audio then you should have no need to encode. Just write both streams out using Direct Stream Copy. should only take a couple of minutes.