Combining 3 large avi files onto one VCD

[chewie8008]

Ok, last one. After I figure this out, i'll stop with all my stupid little questions. I finally figured out how to put an AVI file onto a VCD with audio insync. The problem is, the movie is in 3 seperate files. They were are all already on my harddrive and all three are approx. 1 hour long. How can I get them all on one VCD? I looked for help guides. I saw this one.. https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/84759.php which is labeled "The newbies guide to fitting a movie on one CD using TMPGEnc". But it's for like burning from an actual DVD. I tried using it anyways, and was unsuccessful.

Thanks...

[bugster]

Thre hours on one CD in good quality. You have got to be kidding right?

There may be methods that allow you to get get better quality than stndard settings at low bitrates but I doubt you will get 3 hours on one CD in any quality worth watching.

Simple way. Join all 3 files together in virtualdub. Encode to one large mpeg at VCD standard but lower the bitrate enough to get the movie on to 2 cd's. Use TmpGenc mpeg tools to cut the movie onto 2 pieces and burn.

Hope this helps.

[SaSi]

It would be nice to explain Large. Three times large doesn't fit into VCD well and most movies are split across two or more VCDs.

However, to combine three AVI files, all you need to do is open the first from VirtualDUB and then use "Append AVI Segment" for the other two (assuming they are segments of the same movie).

Then, go to settings and select "Direct Stream Copy" for both audio and video. This will avoid decoding and re-encoding and speed things up.

Then save the file as AVI under a new name.

From that point on your task is "Fitting a single AVI file into a VCD" All you need to do is encode it (either with Tmpgenc or another app). There are certainly guides to explain this with many tools, however Tmpgenc is perhaps the best, easiest, one of the fastest and free tools for this.

Hope that helps.

[chewie8008]

The movie is Scarface, which is kinda weird because I don't remember the real movie being 3 hours long...

1 of 3
Width: 352 pixels
Height: 240 pixels

Duration: 0:57:35
Bit Rate: 40kbps
Audio Format: Mpeg Layer-3
Frame Rate: 20 frames/sec.
Date Rate: 56kbps

2 of 3
Width: 352 pixels
Height: 240 pixels

Duration: 0:57:35
Bit Rate: 40kbps
Audio Format: Mpeg Layer-3
Frame Rate: 20 frames/sec.
Date Rate: 55kbps

3 of 3
Width: 352 pixels
Height: 240 pixels

Duration: 0:56:10
Bit Rate: 40kbps
Audio Format: Mpeg Layer-3
Frame Rate: 20 frames/sec.
Date Rate: 55kbps

I've already ran the first portion through TMPGEnc and the file size is 557MB. The other two should be somewhere around the same size. With that, how many VCDs would it take? I can just put it on 3 CD-Rs and it'll work fine, but it would be so much better to have it on one disc...

Oh, and I forgot, I tried the "append avi segment", and it wasn't an option. Which reminded me I changed it over to mpeg... Plus, the portions that I have that remain in AVI format won't open in TMPGEnc.

[bugster]

Ok, so encode the 3 avi's seperatley in tmpGenc. If you want to get it onto two disc do the following.

In TmpGenc mpeg tools, use the merge and cut feature to join the 3 mpegs together into one large file. Test play this to ensure audio is still in sync (It should be OK). Now again use mpeg tools merge and cut to cut the file into two pieces, one for each CD. Agaian I would suggest a test play to ensure audio sync is OK before you burn but this should work.