Joining VBR .mpg ?????

[pijetro]

Encoded movie to DVD specs, but split onto CDr's for authoring on another system. I made the .m2v with CCE, .mp2 with Toolame, and muxed six 20minute .mpgs with BBmpeg.
The only way to get the six .mpg files to join back to a good sync was by dos command

d:\movie1.mpg+movie2.mpg d:\movie3.mpg..........

Why can't I add them in Tmpgenc without sync probs or even split them for that matter?? Sometimes BBmpeg tells me that my Mux rate might be to low sometimes. Would this be the root of the cause????? Does the VBR encoding have anything to do with it or am I missing a setting in CCE or BBmpeg??????

[SLK001]

I don't know how you "split" the original, but I suspect that you used something like "SPLITTER.EXE". The only way to rejoin them would be with the same program that split them.

Without the MPEG2 header, TMPG (or any other MPEG editor) won't know what to do with the files. When I need to do this, I use WINRAR and set the VOLUME SIZE to what I need. Then I use the program to reconstruct the original at the new site.

[pijetro]

I don't actually split (sorry), I mux .m2v and .mp2 with bbmpeg, but I use the time. ie 0-1200 seconds, 1200-2400 seconds, etc.....This is how I'm able to get several .mpgs on several CDrs. But when remerged for a single DVD stream, the only way to keep synch is Dos command. I would split with Tmpenc, but the preview during cutting freezes up....

Interesting note though on your Winrar method. How do you reconstruct?? Is there a guide for this?

Thanx.....