Avi to DVD..question..??

[aussiemac]

I have two avi's that I want to join together and re-encode to DVD

Using VirtualDubMod to join them
it gives me an error message about the audio
data rate not being the same...

So I need to demux the audio(VBR mp3) to WAV format for each avi.

Then next issue..the data rate for the two AVIs are different

Vid 1 1644Kbps
Vid 2 1480Kbps

So even if I use Virtual Dub and output video only for both
Videos ...then try and join the video only parts using
VirtualDubMod....there is still going to an issue right???

So is the only way of converting the 2 avis to a single DVD movie
1 to redo audio separately -output as WAVs

2 then output each video only via Virtual Dub

3 then re-encode two avi videos to DVD Mpeg

4 convert each audio part to 48KHz sample rate

5 join two audio WAV parts together

6 re-encode audio to AC3

7 then drop the audio and two videos into DVDLab
and author together??

Wont this mean there will be a pause in video on DVD
at join ?? Any way of avoiding a pause in joined video??

Any other way...if this method I mention has faults or issues???

[ropdoh]

You might be able to use avisynth to join the two together seemlessly

try the following script:

vid1=AviSource("your_video_filename1.avi")
vid2=AviSource("your_video_filename2.avi")
return(vid1+vid2)

You can then load that into virtualdub, or put it to an Mpeg encoder to make your DVD compliant mpeg2 file

[jimmalenko]

This is how I'd do it:

Convert each AVI to DVD-compliant MPEG-2 ES (Video Only) using this guide. Extract each audio part to WAV using this guide and re-encode to 48Khz 2ch AC3 using ffmpeggui, besweet or belight. Load files into TMPGEnc DVD Author into the same track. This software automatically creates a chapter point at the join, and this causes the pause. So simply delete it and you shouldn't get a pause at the join. Add your own chapters and possibly even a scene selection menu to taste. Output & burn.

[jkleslie]

I use VirtualDubMod to join AVIs like that. I still get the popup about the data rate, but if you click "No" to rewriting the header to the first and appended file, it will still join them. I've never encountered any pauses, skips, or otherwise doing it this way.

This may not be a good practice according to the more experienced, but as I said, I've personally never had any issues with it.

[NoFace]

Another way to join the files without a pause would be to use tmpegenc to code the files separately to DVD compliance (after using virtualdub or virtualdubmod to save the audio to .wav, and use the resulting files in tmpegenc), and then use tmpegenc's mpeg tools to join the two files.
I don't think I've ever had a pause in a joined file doing it this way. I'm sure there's a guide on this site that uses only these two progs to do what you want.

[aussiemac]

Thanks for all the suggestions...appreciated

managed to get it alltogether and out as DVD

despite different data rates and audio issues

aussiemac