Merging and converting to avi

[flir48]

Hello.
I'm trying to convert my library to avi for win7 mCe.
converting from 1 disk to a avi (just the movie).. work just fine.

But now I have a problem with those 2 disc movies.(lord of the rings for example)...

I start by extracting the main movies for each disk to seperate folders.
I start the merge process to merge the two into one.
Once I have my "merged" folders, I now have two "chapters" in the final output.
But now I need to convert to avi.
How? It wants to create two seperate AVI's....when I run try to run the convert to AVI segment.

So now I'm confused and quite literally stuck.

Help anyone?
Brett

[GregiBoy]

You cannot do this with Fab. It will always retain the two titles.

The function is more truly called "Merge Disk" not "Merge Titles".

You will have to find a third party AVI joiner but if the joined file is over 2Gb, you may encounter playback problems as it will not conform to the OpenDML specs.

[flir48]

thanks..

I found this:

http://www.freevideojoiner.com/

and my final file is 2.2gigs...
It appears to work in win7 mce.. going to test on my 360 extender next.

If it's a limit to avi's.. should I save as wmv for these larger files?
I have about 5 movies with 2discs......... (3 being LOTR)

[GregiBoy]

It depends al lot on what you are playing them with. Some players are more demanding than others on the specs being adhered to,

[flir48]

It depends al lot on what you are playing them with. Some players are more demanding than others on the specs being adhered to,

Just windows MCE on a xbox 360.

[GregiBoy]

I suggest that you then just try it and see what the results are like.