Virtual Dub and DivX 5.0 - huge files when appending with ..

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I hope someone can help me. When I join a series of divx .avi files
using the "apppend" option and save the resulting file, I end up with
a ridiculously huge .avi. As an example, joining two 20 Mb files gives
a new file of some 600 Mb.

I haven't used Virtualdub for a while and never had this problem
before. I am using the latest version of the app and have set both the
video and audio streams to direct stream copy.

Can anyone shed any light on this for me please?

Thanks.
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Big Joe

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Big Joe wrote:
> I hope someone can help me. When I join a series of divx .avi files
> using the "apppend" option and save the resulting file, I end up with
> a ridiculously huge .avi. As an example, joining two 20 Mb files gives
> a new file of some 600 Mb.
>
> I haven't used Virtualdub for a while and never had this problem
> before. I am using the latest version of the app and have set both the
> video and audio streams to direct stream copy.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this for me please?
>
> Thanks.

Are oyu sure you selected "Save as Avi..." and not

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On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:17:36 +0200, Funprice
<jhbusscherNOSPAM@freemail.nl> wrote:

>On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:59:18 +0100, Big Joe <jwylot.at.hotmail.com@>
>wrote:
>
>>I hope someone can help me. When I join a series of divx .avi files
>>using the "apppend" option and save the resulting file, I end up with
>>a ridiculously huge .avi. As an example, joining two 20 Mb files gives
>>a new file of some 600 Mb.
>>
>>I haven't used Virtualdub for a while and never had this problem
>>before. I am using the latest version of the app and have set both the
>>video and audio streams to direct stream copy.
>>
>>Can anyone shed any light on this for me please?
>>
>
>Probably the new file doesn't have DivX compression. VirtualDub
>probably needs to decode before it can join, but doesn't encode
>afterwards. Please check the properties of the new file to find out if
>I'm right in this guess.


The joined .avi is also in DivX 5.1.1 so I don't think that's the
answer. I thought that by selecting direct stream copy, there was no
decompression/recompression involved?


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Big Joe

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On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:49:15 +0100, Big Joe <jwylot.at.hotmail.com@>
wrote:

>On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:17:36 +0200, Funprice
><jhbusscherNOSPAM@freemail.nl> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:59:18 +0100, Big Joe <jwylot.at.hotmail.com@>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>I hope someone can help me. When I join a series of divx .avi files
>>>using the "apppend" option and save the resulting file, I end up with
>>>a ridiculously huge .avi. As an example, joining two 20 Mb files gives
>>>a new file of some 600 Mb.
>>>
>>>I haven't used Virtualdub for a while and never had this problem
>>>before. I am using the latest version of the app and have set both the
>>>video and audio streams to direct stream copy.
>>>
>>>Can anyone shed any light on this for me please?
>>>
>>
>>Probably the new file doesn't have DivX compression. VirtualDub
>>probably needs to decode before it can join, but doesn't encode
>>afterwards. Please check the properties of the new file to find out if
>>I'm right in this guess.
>
>
>The joined .avi is also in DivX 5.1.1 so I don't think that's the
>answer. I thought that by selecting direct stream copy, there was no
>decompression/recompression involved?

You're probably right. I guess I was wrong.

By the way, how long does it take to generate the joined file of 600
MB? How does it play?