Help appending Xvid 2 pass video

[lar1r]

I've read that some can and some cant. Right now I can't. Is there a technical reason why?

2 video streams encoded with 2 pass.
Exact same framerate.

Virtual dub says the two video streams have different data formats. I've used AViC, and framerate changer to make sure they are identical.

The resolution is 480x256 (its a letterbox tv show).
Any ideas?

[Koepi]

head over to www.virtualdub.org and read avery's comment about this.

regards,
Koepi

[Acaila]

I don't think that's what he meant Koepi. I've had the same thing happen to me a number of times. Encode one part of a movie one day, another part the day after that, then try to merge them together and VDub says it can't. Even though all settings were the same. I am well aware of the normal issues and work-arounds for when this happens and they usually don't apply to these cases.

I think it has something to do with the daily updates of XviD builds. Maybe you need to reboot after each update, or the movie is encoded slightly differently so it's not compatible to a previously encoded movie anymore.
Re-encode the older movie with the new build and everything gets merged correctly again.

[lar1r]

Both videos were compressed using Fast Recompress.
If that's what you are referring to then it didn't work.
As far as I can remember - the same version of xvid was used too.

Thx

[saVe]

this has to do with vbr mp3 audio.
(don't we all love lame and besweet?)

load your videos, save them without audio , merge them and put the whole audio file in the resulting video again. should work....

[lar1r]

i used pcm audio (wav) and have tried without audio.
I will go over everything again cause I am stumped.

If it works for others then it is an error on my end.

[rui]

Did you tried Avitul?

it always worked for me.

[Teegedeck]

Originally posted by rui
Did you tried Avitul?

it always worked for me.

Yes, the 'concatenate'-function of AviUtl is the most reliable method to merge two XviD-files. Haven't we added this to the Q&A, yet?

[ARDA]

With the last version of AviUtl 0.97f,I could join two xvid avis
with the normal open and append functions as well.

Arda

[lar1r]

Yes, use AviUtl 0.97f (not the previous version - i think is .4)
Everything works fine now.

Thx

[Klumsy]

Can you give me a link to download the latest AviUtil?
I just found an older one, that couldn't open XviD nor DivX.

[lar1r]

Its under doom's download page
- go to avi editing tools-full listing
- its called aviutl .97f

[Klumsy]

LoL, okay thank you.
I was looking for 'AviUtil' and thats why I couldn't find it :D
It was pretty late last night ;)