You will need two or three tools to accomplish this task. The first tool is an application called VirtualDub, which is used to join video files. Once this is done, you will need to encode the file into the MPEG-1 format using TMPGenc. MPEG-1 is the VCD format. Now this new "mpg" file will be used to create a VCD by burning a CD in the VCD mode. For this, you will require Nero. You can use VirtualDub and TMPGEnc and then burn the file into a CD using Nero. After appending the files, you can either convert them to the VCD format or use Nero directly. However, this process is quite long. Here's how you go about it:

o Download VirtualDub 1.5.10 from. net/. The tool can be used to append AVI files.

o Another thing to keep in mind is that the files you are trying to join need to have the same video resolution, frame rate, and bit rate. You can check this by viewing the file properties. You can save [File I Save as AVI) the video files opened in VirtualDub as AVI files. Open these new files one by one, move the progress bar to the end, and click on "File I Append AVI Segment". Open a second AVI file and it will be added to the previous file's last frame. Save the appended AVI file.

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o Once you have saved the appended AVI file, use TMPGEnc to recode it to the MPEG-1 format. Download TMPGEnc from:_download. html

Make sure that the VCD files are created with a video resolution of 352 x 288 [PAL), 25 fps, and a constant bit rate. While using Nero, choose VCD as the burn mode and import the MPG file you just created from TMPGEnc. You can also directly import the appended file into Nero while in the VCD mode. If the format is compatible, it will accept the file; else, it will try to encode it into the VCD format.

Use VirtualDub if you want to break a huge DVD movie file into smaller hunks [to carry it in your USB pen drive for examplel.