How to join an xvid and mpeg-2 file into one xvid?

[Funkdafied]

I've got two files, a short xvid clip and a television show I recorded (MPEG-2). The xvid clip is 4:3 and the show is 16:9 but I'll be cropping it to 4:3. What I want to do is produce a 175mb XviD file with the short clip at the beginning, and the recorded show following it.

I don't mind re-encoding the first part (the short xvid clip) but I'd like to use my usual method of Gordian Knot to encode the show.

So how can I accomplish this?

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[check]

If you don't mind using mkv as your container you can simply append the whole show to the clip in mmg.exe. As long as the audio and video codecs are the same (and the AR, because changing AR can cause problems in some players) you will run into no problems.

[Funkdafied]

Hmm.. I'd rather stick to AVI if possible.

[manono]

Hi-

Why not join them when done? Of course, they'll both have to have the same attributes, resolution, framerate, codec, audio, etc.

[Funkdafied]

Why not join them when done? Of course, they'll both have to have the same attributes, resolution, framerate, codec, audio, etc.
Yeah, thats a bit of a problem.. I'd like to encode the television show according to my own preferences but I don't mind recompressing the existing xvid clip to match it.. how would I do that?

[smok3]

use avisynth for example, pseudo code:

a = avisource("one.avi")
b = mpeg2source("two.mpeg")

#do some processing on a
a = a.lanczosresize(720,480)
.
.
.
ect

#do some processing on b
b = b.lanczosresize(720,480)
.
.
.
ect




return ("a+b")

[Funkdafied]

Thanks for that smok3.. I'm getting somewhere now.