What do you use to merge/join files?

I'm currently enjoying playing back old DVD movies on my mini player. This involves converting the DVD files to avi.

Creating avi's from DVD VOB files is fine, but all the files encode separately, leaving you in some cases with a whole pile of avi's that make up a complete film.

What does everyone do to overcome this and create one final avi from either a DVD that have multiple VOB's or from a set of avi's that have been created from the VOB's?

Originally Posted by richardg

I'm currently enjoying playing back old DVD movies on my mini player. This involves converting the DVD files to avi.

Creating avi's from DVD VOB files is fine, but all the files encode separately, leaving you in some cases with a whole pile of avi's that make up a complete film.

What does everyone do to overcome this and create one final avi from either a DVD that have multiple VOB's or from a set of avi's that have been created from the VOB's?

Winmenc is able to code the whole movie as 1 avi. Though, if ran only through winmenc, the result isn't flattering. Best results I have achieved with my own settings, which also ends as 1 avi.

The thread is here Absolutely the best results for video quality and steady looking fps

This doesn't actually answer the topics question, but the final outcome is the one you wanted.

Thanks for the advise, it seems to work provided:
1. Your DVD is not protected/copyrighted.
2. You are using a DVD drive as the source.

I use a decrypter to unencrypt some DVD's so I can play them on my Meizu, this means my files (VOB's) are hard drive based, not DVD based.

I can't find a way to get winmenc to look at an HDD folder - any ideas?
(This is probably why i'm getting multiple output files, as I have to use the 'batch' tab to get them encoded instead of the 'DVD' tab)

using winmenc? then you should be reading up the mencoder commandline commands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEncode...ultiple_videos

Virtual Dub MPEG2 also allows you to "append" files to one another, ultimately patching together multiple avi files into a single avi seamlessly.

Thanks to all for the feedback.

Where necessary, i'm now decrypting my DVD's to a image and loading them to a virtual drive which is recognised by winmenc. I can now collate all the VOB's into a single avi file. (I happen to be preparing them as a high res DivX file). I can then run it though VirtualDub/Bodak to get a Meizu compatible file.

Just gotta do some more work now on keeping the audio in sync... :-/