combining divx movies

[imotic]

i'd like to combine 3 divx movies. (the AVIs are in the process of generating now.) how would I go about doing that?

my first thought was to take something like DivFix, strip the checksum, use something (Windows Movie Maker?) to put them together, and then generate a new checksum. is that a good idea?


I'm going to be doing this a few times, actually... I was wondering if there's an easy way to do this before encoding to DivX? I have the vob files, and I'm using the Gordian Knot/DivX5 guide. I just can't think of a way to make a DVD2AVI file from segments of the same vob file.

Thanks all...

[killingspree]

hi and welcome to the forum,
actually there's several ways to do this, all easier than using checksums! the probably easiest way would be to encode the divxs seperately, make sure that they have the same

bitrate
hight
width
colorspace


alternatively, if you are comfortable messing with avisynth scripts, you could creat the appropriate avisynth script for each of your files, then create a new one and use alignsplice (or just ++) to ad all the videos together. then you should be able to encode all the videos(clips) at once and even end up with one big file!

code would look something like

avisource("youravs1.avs")++avisource("youravs2.avs")++avisource("youravs3.avs")

or

a=avisource("youravs1.avs")
b=avisource("youravs2.avs")
c=avisource("youravs3.avs")
d=a++b++c
return(d)


hope this helps
SteVe

[Lord of the Discs]

I´m too dumb for avisynth, my favourite way is VirtualDub,
but it only works for avi´s made with same codec and settings
( the 4 things listed by killingspree above)and it goes like this:

you open the first avi in Vdub, set Video and Audio mode to
"direct stream copy" and then append the other 2 files

LotD

[imotic]

ok, now i'd like to seperate a divx movie into pieces.. i tried virtualdub for this, but the audio (which was originally encoded as vbr) is not in sync at all, and the video hiccups in the first second, but is then fine. is there a GOOD way to do this?:) thanks..

[manono]

Hi-

Virtual Dub doesn't support VBR audio. You're just asking for trouble when you try and use it for splitting. Use NanDub for that.

And as for the first question, another way to encode separate movies at the same time is by putting all the vobs together in DVD2AVI. After you get the first set in there, just hit the "Add" button and add the next set, and so on.