Joining 2 Mpegs without re-encoding?

[Rudyard]

Due to the size of the uncompressed AVIs I captured, I had to caprture half, edit it and encode to DVD compliant MPEG2 delete the AVIs and then capture the 2nd part to do the same thing.

I would like to now join them together to have 1 MPEG file of my home movie but I dont want to have to encode it again (as they are both DVD MPEG2's already).

Is it possible to somehow just save them together without reencoding so as to not loose any quality?

Or is encoding them together the only option?

Sony Vegas is what I used to create them.

Thankyou.

[kalayaan]

In TMPGEnc MPEG Editor, if you set two or more mpeg files as your source, it will not reencode them but will just join them. I usually use this to prepare mpeg 1s before authoring to DVD. For my part I only set it to reencode the audio to DVD-compliant 48KHz.

Womble MPEG Video Wizard will also do this. Put your videos in the timeline and click export. Make sure your template is set to automatic and it will just join your videos. Click the details button to check which parts will be reencoded and which will not.

Hope this helps,

Lee

[redwudz]

If it's DVD compliant MPEG-2, just add both into an authoring program like TMPGEnc DVD Author and they will play one after the other. No joining involved. That's what the multiple VOBS in a regular DVD do, anyway.