please recommend a prgm to merge mpgs to 1 continuous stream

[Azntrance]

Hi,

I've seen a few of these types of programs, but I just wanted to see what everyone here would recommend based on user-friendliness.

btw, what would happen if you make a DVD-Video with mpg1 rather than mpeg2 files? I tried, but so far i'm unsuccessful because the software (ULEAD Movie Factory) slows down like hell... the DVD is supposed to hold around 2 hours of video, but the software with only mpgs listed close to 4 hours.

Thanks!

[iceberg66]

I have used the freeware http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
and did a good job for me

[canadateck]

To join Mpg files you can use Tmpgenc , and if you convert the audio in the mpg1 file to 48 k it will be fine with Ulead.

[andkiich]

You can use TMPEN or any muxer really for that matter should join the files.

OR

You can join everyting in the authoring process. If you want to do MPEG1 DVDs, you'll still need to transcode the audio from 44.1khz to 48khz, but TMPGEN DVD Author or DVD-Lab should author them just fine.

[canadateck]

OR

You can join everyting in the authoring process.

I didnt know Ulead can Join Files?

[Azntrance]

OK i used TMPenc and i sucessfully merged the clips into 1 stream by hitting file-> movie tools -> merge & cutting

btw, with ULEAD's movie factory, it said that I needed about 9.7GB of free disk space. Is this normal or is something wrong?? (this is when I tried burning a DVD full of MPEG1. It read that the 4.7 GB on the DVD contained about 3.9 hours a video.

Is something wrong? because I thought a dvd can only hold 120 mins of video? is it because they're mpeg1?

[mats.hogberg]

Only thing that determines how much video (in minutes) a DVD can hold is the bitrate it's encoded in.
VCD spec mpg video is DVD compliant, and allows you to fit > 7 hours of video+audio on a 4.7 GB DVD. If it's mpeg1 or mpeg2 doesn't have anything to do with how much you can fit.

/Mats