Good morning all. I just received two seperate cd's containing a movie converted to avi. Obviously cd1 and cd2 make up the entire movie. Here's my dilemma. I converted both to mpeg II and tried joining but wound up with unmatching bitrates. Apparently cd1 was created at a faster bitrate than cd2. When going to join I tried using Super video converter, but it won't join the two and gives no error. So I tried Easy Video joiner, it automatically popped up a message stating the bitrate issue. So my question before I waste my time doing it, is this. Will I be able to join these two in their native state as avi? Then convert to MPEG II to make my DVD, or can I join them in their native state and make them a DVD without losing any kind of integrity? Lastly, I didn't bother trying the join as their current state avi. last night since I spent so much time trying all the others. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks all!
You can try joining them as avi in virtualdub. If that fails, just use your authoring program to join the two. It will appear almost seamless, if you make sure the end point of the first, matches up with the start point of the second. There may be a slight hiccup at that point, but that's about it.
Have any idea's why the bitrates wouldn't match? Sounds odd to me. The quality is great. Perhaps I could ask you another question. I have a feeling I won't have any problem joining as AVI, however, after I've joined them to create the single avi file, when I go to convert this to DVD, will this completly destroy the quality? I always convert all of my avi files to mpeg II before converting to DVD to create my DVD. Since I'll be cutting out my mpeg II convert I don't know what I should expect. Thanks rebootjim
You'll only lose quality, if you recompress the avi when joining. It's easier to work with avi, if you have the hard drive space, then encode the whole movie to mpeg. Just use vdub, select video, direct stream copy.
