How to join avi with the same quality into one file without losing quality

Hey guys,

How do you join two avi files (with the same bitrates, framerates, audio samples and everything) into one file without losing quality (through reencoding kinda like saving and resaving jpegs) and still be playable on dvd players with divx support?

Can anyone give me walkthrough and programs I need to have? I tried using those 1-click video joiners but it took a long time, quality obviously went down because of recompression and the resulting files size is bigger than the sum of both avis.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I know that mkvmerge can do this, the resulting file will be a matroska container but you can always extract an AVI from it. Importing AVI into mkv always operates directly on the stream, no recompression is done.
IIRC also VDub should provide such a functionality, but I rarely used it.

How ya doing, buddy?

Thanks liquid acid, but I intend to play the avi on a standaloine dvd player with divx support. COuld you tell me how to join two avis losslessly with Virtual Dub? What is IIRC?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Roan

Thanks liquid acid, but I intend to play the avi on a standaloine dvd player with divx support.

So what? As I said you can always extract an AVI from the resulting matroska container.

Originally Posted by Roan

COuld you tell me how to join two avis losslessly with Virtual Dub?

No, I have virtually no experience with VDub. Find it out yourself. I only remember that it has this functionality. I might be wrong.

Originally Posted by Roan

What is IIRC?

If I Remember Correctly

And next time try googling first:
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/arch...b_join_avi.cfm

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

or use Boilsoft AVI MPEG RM WMV Joiner v4.82

I was speaking idiomatically.