Join AVI Files with AviSplit

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.mywebattack.com/gnomeapp.php?id=108256&d=7123427/&ref=lgnome' target='_blank'>http://www.mywebattack.com/gnomeapp.php?id=108256&d=7123427/&ref=lgnome</a><br /><br /></div><i>"AviSplit enables you to split, rejoin and clip your .AVI video files, using a fast and lossless process that does not process any of the movie data. The output files are saved with an incrementing file name, so your original is not changed in any way. You can easily rejoin the split files, using the built-in options. In addition, you can clip your files and trim portions from the beginning or end of the movie."</i><br /><br />If you have a few AVI files that you want to join together, this is a handy way to do it. Does anyone know of a way to do this with WMV files? That would have come in handy for me a couple of months ago - when Windows Media Player 9 is in full-screen mode, and you have multiple video clips in the playlist, it comes out of full-screen mode for a second or so while it switches to the next clip. Really distracting and irritating. :?

[dean_shan]

Would this work on Divx and Xvid files as well or just straight .avi?

[Jason Dunn]

Would this work on Divx and Xvid files as well or just straight .avi?

It should work on both since they're just files in an AVI wrapper.

[backpackerx]

Sweet! this should allow me to save footage I have by burning it on 2 dvd's without having to compress for space on just 1.

[Anthony Caruana]

I might be a little thick (I'm still a newbie on the whole digital video thing) but VirtualDub can split and join AVIs. I just joined a pair of AVIs last night.

[backpackerx]

doesn't it have to render the clip to do this though? I tried to split an 8Gb AVI with VirtualDub and it was going to over an hour so I gave up.

[Crocuta]

Unfortunately, this will only join files that it has split itself. That's a shame since I have more need to join files that I download already split than to split files I already have. Oh well, it's hard to complain when it's free.

[encece]

If you have a few AVI files that you want to join together, this is a handy way to do it. Does anyone know of a way to do this with WMV files? That would have come in handy for me a couple of months ago - when Windows Media Player 9 is in full-screen mode, and you have multiple video clips in the playlist, it comes out of full-screen mode for a second or so while it switches to the next clip. Really distracting and irritating. :?

I use Windows Movie Maker to join WMVs together.

[Jason Dunn]

I use Windows Movie Maker to join WMVs together.

But doesn't it re-encode them? That's what I wanted to avoid...

[Jason Dunn]

Unfortunately, this will only join files that it has split itself.

Well that's a bit silly - I probably wouldn't have posted on it if I knew that. What good is an AVI file joiner that won't join files that existed before you started using the program? :roll:

[Crocuta]

Unfortunately, this will only join files that it has split itself.

Well that's a bit silly - I probably wouldn't have posted on it if I knew that. What good is an AVI file joiner that won't join files that existed before you started using the program? :roll:

My thoughts exactly. I suppose I could be wrong, but the documentation carries on about how it inserts special code in the split files to make sure they're put back together in the correct order. I also took note that the author uses the term 'rejoin' as opposed to 'join', which seems to imply the same thinking. Then I took a multi-piece AVI file and tried to join it, but just got error messages. Admittedly, though, I only tried the one file set. If anyone finds a way to get this to join files that were split by other programs (or another freeware program that does it), do post about it here.

[backpackerx]

Well, where I do like this program is for achiving video files on DVD. I have a small hard drive and need to get an 8Gb AVI off of it but don't want to compress it onto only one DVD. With this (haven't tried it yet but this is what I understand it to do) I can split the file and save it to 2 DVDs for later rejoining and editing.
Make sense?

[Crocuta]

Well, where I do like this program is for achiving video files on DVD. I have a small hard drive and need to get an 8Gb AVI off of it but don't want to compress it onto only one DVD. With this (haven't tried it yet but this is what I understand it to do) I can split the file and save it to 2 DVDs for later rejoining and editing.
Make sense?

Yes, that seems to be exactly what it's for. You're in business and you can't beat the price! :D