What's better?

[headless chicken]

I have a movie split into 2 avis approximately 1.5 hours each in length that I want to encode onto SVCD. I am not sure how to approach this project. I could:

1) Join these files with VirtualDub because they have the same bitrate and codecs, and then split the one large avi into 3 avis of approximate equal length (60 min).
-OR-
2) Feed the two seperate avis into TMPGEnc and use different source ranges while encoding 3 MPEG2 files.

I'm not sure with method is better or likely to be bug free

[stephanV]

dont join in VDub, it might cause synching problems (youre allowed to try of course)

you can always join and split with TMPGEnc, no?

[headless chicken]

I thought Vdub was the app of choice when it came to joining divx or xvid files. TMPGEnc is buggy when cutting/joining, but I could give it a shot I suppose.

[celtic_druid]

Don't join them if you are only joining to then re-encode the resulting avi. Use AVISynth, something like
part1 = avisource("part1.avi")
part2 = avisource("part2.avi")
video = part1++part2
trim(video,0,endframe)<--first part
trim(video,oldendframe+1,newendframe)<-- second part
etc.

Then simply use each script with the different trim values as a source.