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| Recon |
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I have recently captured some old home videos onto my PC with VirtualDub, but in some cases I'd like to join 2 separate .avi files together. I found this tutorial but, before I go ahead, I was wondering whether this process degrades the quality at all?
The video is encoded using the XVID codec and the sound uses the LAME MP3 codec.
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| foxidrive |
| Posted: Aug 21 2008, 08:56 AM |
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If you use 'direct stream copy' under the video and audio menus the process is not lossy. However it does require that the two parts of video had the same parameters settings when they were encoded.
If you use a video codec to recompress the two parts, it will be lossy. |
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| Recon |
| Posted: Aug 21 2008, 10:32 AM |
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ok, thanks. |
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| foxidrive |
| Posted: Aug 21 2008, 02:19 PM |
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I should add that there are lossless video codecs like Huffy which could be used. |
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| Recon |
| Posted: Aug 21 2008, 03:52 PM |
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| QUOTE (foxidrive @ Aug 21 2008, 02:19 PM) | | I should add that there are lossless video codecs like Huffy which could be used. |
How much larger would a Huffy-compressed video be (file size) compared to a good quality DIVX/XVID video? I know there is no exact answer, but roughly speaking... |
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| foxidrive |
| Posted: Aug 22 2008, 04:43 AM |
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Personally I don't know - have never used Huffy. |
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