Trying to add a small intro clip to a movie file without re-encoding

[solar2504]

I'm trying to add a 5 second intro video to some avi movie files I downloaded. I tried those video joiner programs, but unless my 5 second intro video is encoded exactly the same way as the main movie it will not join the two files together.

Anyone have any ideas on how this can be done without having to re-encode the whole movie?

[träskmannen]

What about re-encoding the 5 second intro video instead?

[mats.hogberg]

Iunless my 5 second intro video is encoded exactly the same way as the main movie it will not join the two files together.

That's the way it works - You can't seamlessly join 2 things that have different properties.
Just make sure your intro clip is encoded exactly like the main movie, and it shouldn't be too much work.

Have you tried AviDemux? It is said to be better for this kind of operations.

/Mats

[solar2504]

Well I tried re-encoding my intro, i matched the resolution exactly and they're both xvid files also but they still won't join. The audio is some weird bitrate that I can't seem to match.

I've all but given up on this endevor.

All I really wanted was a way to add my websites URL into the beginning of every movie without going through the rediculously long process of re-encoding a whole movie.

Is there some program out there that will let me maybe add an image file like a jpeg to the beginning of a movie perhaps? just something to get my website shown for a few seconds before the movie starts.

[mats.hogberg]

Again - all clips you want to join must have exactly the same properties. Did you try AviDemux?

/Mats

[PuzZLeR]

Another thing you can do is use MediaInfo on both your files (in text mode). Try and find what's differing in their respective properties.

And I too would recommend you re-encode your header to match, not the rest of the movie.

[mats.hogberg]

Most likely, your main movie has VBR mp3 audio. Impossible to match, and generally a PITA in every respect.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

AVI Demux handles VBR MP3. Just let it create the time map when it asks.

[DarrellS]

All I really wanted was a way to add my websites URL into the beginning of every movie without going through the rediculously long process of re-encoding a whole movie.

Is there some program out there that will let me maybe add an image file like a jpeg to the beginning of a movie perhaps? just something to get my website shown for a few seconds before the movie starts.

Use Virtualdub with either Donald Graft's Logo filter or the built in Logo filter and use Blend mode with the Curve editor and Smart Render to only encode the filtered part.

You can use a blue background to make the movie show through and the text visable. With the curve editor, you can make the text fade in and fade out and control how long the text is visible.

[marioval]

Add you intro video as a "first play" into TDA3. That way the intro will play when the DVD is inserted.

[mats.hogberg]

Add you intro video as a "first play" into TDA3. That way the intro will play when the DVD is inserted.

...If we were talking about Video DVD creation, yes, but that's not my impression.

/Mats

[mgh]

generally, the problem is the audio part. a round about way which should work-convert both to video cd format (both to NTSC or both to PAL with TMPGEnc). Join them, with TMPGEnc. Demux the audio out of the joined files. Demux the video (direct stream copy in vdub) from both avi files. join them with vdub. use vdub mod to load joined video, audio from the joined vcd files. reencode only the video.
changing sampling rates of audio in avi files to match should work theoretically, but practiically it doesn't because vdub always finds a miniscule difference.