What's better?

[headless chicken]

I have a movie split into 2 avis approximately 1.5 hours each in length that I want to encode onto SVCD. I am not sure how to approach this project. I could:

1) Join these files with VirtualDub because they have the same bitrate and codecs, and then split the one large avi into 3 avis of approximate equal length (60 min).
-OR-
2) Feed the two seperate avis into TMPGEnc and use different source ranges while encoding 3 MPEG2 files.

I'm not sure with method is better or likely to be bug free.

[johns0]

How about encoding for 4-45 minute cds,just encode 2 45 minute segments from each avi.

[ZippyP.]

Personally I would join them with Vdub and frameserve the video to TMPGEnc so that no "joined" file is created. I'd use the source range to create 3 SVCD's of 352x480 resolution (CVD) and 2-pass vbr to encode as the bitrate will be about 1600 kbps.

If you don't know how to frameserve with Vdub just look up a guide, it's easy.

[headless chicken]

Frameserving--sounds like a good solution to me. I've never tried it though, so I may be back if I encounter some difficulty in the process. Thanks for the suggestions, guys.