Several appended files give oversize result

andy

Hi Folks,
Maybe one of you guys knows what's going on here. When I capture say a TV show with my Happauge PVR250, encode it to Divx 5.2 using the HT profile @ 1500 and use Vdub to edit out the commercials the results are great. However if I then append the several segments using direct stream copy for both audio and video I get a file roughly twice the size of the total of the seperate ones. I just open/append.. open/append and so on, select DSC for both streams and save as .avi . The resulting file is fine in every way except being way too big. Anybody know why?
Thanks,
gt;gt;gt;--Tiribulus-gt;

look at the lower left corner of the quot;appendquot; opening screen? is that box checked by any chance?

Well, Gahhhhlee, ya know I didn't even see that and leaving it checked was the explanation. Thank yoooo sir! Does this mean that i can just pick the first file and assuming a sequential naming convention it'll add the rest automatically?
Thanks again,
gt;gt;gt;--Tiribulus-gt;

it should work that way yes