AVI Join With VirtualDub PDF Print E-mail

Sometimes you want to split an AVI file in order to make it fit in a CD, but then you want to join it again so that you can watch the whole movie without stop or you want to put it in a DVD-R. Follow this guide to easily join an AVI file with VirtualDub. If you have splitted an AVI file with our AVI split guide then read the additional steps to joins these files without repeating the key-frames again. If your video fies contain VBR Mp3 sound please use VirtualDubMod which you can find, as well as the original VirtualDub here.

TO JOIN TWO VIDEO FILES THEY MUST HAVE THE SAME RESOLUTION, BITRATE, CODEC ETC

 

Open VirtualDub. Then select Video -> Direct stream copy

Next go to Audio and select Source audio and Direct stream copy.

Then select File -> Open video file.

Here select the first one of the video files you want to join and select Open.

Now select File -> Append AVI segment. You can do this as many times to add as many AVI files you want.

Finally select File -> Save as AVI and save the whole video.

Name it anyway you want and click Save.

This is the process window. Wait about 15-30 minutes for it to finish and there you go!

 

EXTRA STEPS

If you have splitted the AVI file with our AVI Split guide then you have to do some more steps. That's because we added a key-frame (about 3-4 sec) of the first part to the second part to be sure that we are not going to lose a second. So:

Follow the above guide until Step 4 then do the steps below and continue the guide above from Step 5 to the end.


Then click button (1) than button (2) and then button (3).
After that click button (1), then button (2) and then press DEL at your keyboard or go Edit -> Delete selection.
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ATTN video option
written by Repilce, April 29, 2007
With latest VirtualDubMod.. i seen no video option for set direct stream.. just set the video direct stream.. skipped step3.. worked perfect for me.
correction on last msg..
written by Repilce, April 29, 2007
I meant seen no audio selection for direct stream.. just set the video and worked..
good guide
written by debopam, May 19, 2007
but the only problem is that the total file size of the 5 files that i joined was only 350 MB whereas the output file size is around 14 GB!! can this huge size be brought down somehow?
Not working
written by Freestyle Greek, June 08, 2007
I saw a different guide that said to move the bar to the end of the first part of the movie. So i did that and then click on append avi and then click on the 2nd part of the movie. Chosoe direct stream for video and audio which i did and then said then save the avi.

I did all this but the 2nd half of the movie i have the voices dont sync up with the mouth movements and ive read comments about this as well.
Reply to "good guide"
written by Abdullah Rathur, July 07, 2007
I think I know what you did wrong. Instead of doing "direct stream copy," you probably decompressed either the video, audio or both. This would result in a MUCH larger file.
another reply to "good guide"
written by peregrino, July 20, 2007
The same trouble was happening to me, but I tried the next:
If your 5 files are in the same directory and all have the same name, except the sufix with the number, e.g. "file_1", "file_2",..., "file_5", you must append *ONLY* the second file, and then "save as avi".

Virtuadub (in my case VirtuadubMod) will join all the 5 files in a new file with near the same size as the sum of the original 5 parts!
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written by eytan, October 04, 2007
11111
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written by WBHAWK, October 05, 2007
Thanks "peregrino"! You were right about the files. You only need to select the first, and then the second one, that's all! (of course, if the files are: XXX1.avi, XXX2.avi, XXX3.avi, etc.)
getting "Invalid AVI file: Not a RIFF file" although i'm trying to join two avi files
written by AVI_newbie, April 02, 2008
i am using VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 to join two segments of an AVI file and get the error message "Invalid AVI file: Not a RIFF file" when i try to append the second segment.

can you help?

avi_newbie
re " getting "Invalid AVI file: Not a RIFF file" although i'm trying to join two avi files"
written by old bloke, April 06, 2008
an avi is a type of RIFF or resource interchange file format the message is prolly coming up because virtualdub mod isn't reading that in the file header. get avicodec a piece of freeware listed in the tools section here and make sure that what you have does in fact conform to the avi standard.
me
written by jadewarrior, April 13, 2008
stargate ark vid runs on win but want dvd it
i converted 2 .mkv to .avi files with win media player to achieve this
see last post by warocks here
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/93146
then got to here but the avi is no recognised by the viddub portable thing
if u can help send to
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TIA
good tutor smilies/smiley.gif
avicodec says
files is mkv no other codec info >is .avi tho lol

Use Jfuse (http://www.jfuse.com) to do this much easier.
written by DiscoStu, April 29, 2008
Jfuse (http://www.jfuse.com) is a simple utility that allows you to join/split AVI/MPEG/WMV files. It doesn't have the functionality of Virtual Dub, but it makes this process very simple.
avi conversion
written by Ismail, June 24, 2009
AWESOME program - does the avi joining in much less time than any other program I've used and it does it perfectly. There is one type of file that it can't join yet and that is an xvid but I'm sure that will be addressed at some point.

Great job guys - I love this program.
audio dosn't match
written by pedram, December 02, 2009
i want to join "lord of the ring" axxo 2-cd release and have one file but the cd-1 is 48 KHZ and cd-2 is 44.1 KHZ (both are 112kb/s). got error:
"the audio streams do not share a common sampling rate"

and also can't use "compression" option to change one into other! got the error:
"Error initializing audio stream compression:
The audio codec cannot compress the source audio to desired format"

when i use "conversion" option for 44.1 the result will save in 48 but again can't join, the same error!

what can i do?

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