Is it possible to Join *Xvid-Divx-Avi* with different bitrat

[fuubuu]

I have a tv show i want to put together on DVD. Although each episode wasnt authored the same way qualitys are good on others but not so great on some. Although they are all Xvid...can i join them without them having the EXACT bitrate etc that u need when using Virtual Dub, if not how else can i join these files?

[Soopafresh]

Encode them all into MPEG2 and then join the MPEGs when you're done.

[junkmalle]

I have a tv show i want to put together on DVD. Although each episode wasnt authored the same way qualitys are good on others but not so great on some. Although they are all Xvid...can i join them without them having the EXACT bitrate etc that u need when using Virtual Dub, if not how else can i join these files?

The bitrate doesn't have to be the same but the video codec, frame rate, frame size, audio sample rate and audio sample format has to be the same. If some are XVID and some are DIVX you might be able to use a Fourcc changer to make the DIVX look like XVID, or vice versa.

[celtic_druid]

If you are just re-encoding you really don't need to join them. You can just use AVISynth:
ep1 = avisource("ep1.avi")
ep2 = avisource("ep2.avi")
etc.
ep1+ep2+ep3, etc.

If they have different framerates, resolutions, etc. then that can be changed in AVISynth to.

[ZippyP.]

Encode them all into MPEG2 and then join the MPEGs when you're done.

This is the best advice. Convert each to DVD compliant mpeg and "join" them at the authoring stage. You can make each episode a chapter or track on the DVD.

[fuubuu]

Is there a guide to do such? ^^^^^

[fuubuu]

AVIsynth i mean

[celtic_druid]

Well if the files are the same stats (res, framerate, etc.) then all you need is the above. Install AVISynth, open notepad, copy the above and then edit it to point to your files, save it as whatever.avs, test it by opening with VDub and then if ok, encode. Not sure why you would want to encode all the episodes as a single file though I guess it would give better bitrate distribution for VBR encoding.

Another usefull function though is trim() which you can use if you want to cut say the start or end off any of the files. Basically just ep1 = avisource("ep1.avi").trim(500,0) if you wanted to remove the first 500 frames.

[jimmalenko]

Is each file 1 episode ? Do you want a menu where you can select individual episodes ?

If you answered Yes to both these questions, convert each file to MPEG-2 separately, then bring everything together with a nice menu in an authoring program, such as TMPGEnc DVD Author.