Combining 2 AVI segments.

[substyle]

I have 2 AVI DIVX segments each about an hour long and 720 MB. I want to combine them and convert to DVD. The problem I am having is when I append the first segment in VirtualDub it gives the error "Cannot Append Segment: The Audio Streams have different sampling rates (20283.00000 vs. 20151.00000).

I searched this forum and saw some recommendations to convert both segments to MPEG and then combine them in TMPGEnc however my previous experience doing that lead to an unbearable sound delay (more than 20 seconds) and I see a lot of people warning on this forum that there could be some audio problems at the point where the 2 segments are joined.

What can I do to get these AVI's combined without losing quality or synch in audio/video?

Thanks

[Poplar]

One word: frameserve. You don't need to physically join two clips together and encode the join clip. You only need to splice them up logically with a frameserver, e.g., AVISynth.

You might need to extract audio separately, resample them to make it DVD compliant and join them together.

[FOO]

Encode separately
and author both
no problem

[ZippyP.]

Alternative: Convert the audio in each avi to wav, then join the segments.

Using Vdub: load the file, audio>full processing mode, audio>compression(no compression), video>direct stream copy, save avi.

Do that for both segments and you should be able to join them, they will get quite large though.

[FOO]

You don't need to join them at all !
encode each of them separately to an MPEG2

Insert both mpegs into authoring program

they will play as one movie

just trying to save you some trouble.

[towercase]

Try using NanDub instead of VirtualDub to merge the avi files.

[Tommyknocker]

And then there is my favorite, AviSynth:

AviSource("C:\substyle1.avi")+AviSource("C:\substy le2.avi")

Looks pretty easy to me. And you can either frameserve from Virtual Dub to TMPGEnc, or encode in TMPGEnc.