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I've been tinkering for about 12 hours all told now, I've got 8 episodes of an anime that I want to copy to a DVD (for my own use) - I understand if I can only fit 4 or 6 of them uncompressed, that's not the problem. The problem is that they were initially encoded using a variable bitrate mp3 format (apparently) that really annoys VirtualDub and vicariously, me. These files were even all encoded by the same group, so they are as much alike as they can be, but virtualdub won't allow a merge because it interprets the data rates to be different or the sampling rates to be off. I've found a couple of different threads that sound similar and a couple of guides that gave me ideas to try, but the closest thing I ever got was copying out the avi to a wav file, then reinserting it to the file, but when I do this using the guides, I get horrible sync issues, even though the audio file and video file differ by less than a 10th of a second in duration, they are completely out of sync. When I find a thread kinda like it, everyone is so busy impressing everyone with the use of jargon that I'm sure one becomes accustomed to with years of audio/video dvd authorish guru-osity, that they forget about normal people who just want to put a few TV shows on a DVD so that they can watch it on a screen bigger than 17". I'm a smart guy, but I don't know what a demux is, let alone how to do it, can someone give me a blow by blow of what I need to do to re-record each AVI in a CBR audio format that will let me merge them into one file for TMPGenc, so that I can split it back into chapters with the DVD Author and actually see something on my television besides reality shows and commercials advertising things that don't exist and aren't on sale? I don't care if it takes 5 days to re-encode the whole mess, but my lack of forward progress has me ready to gnaw my own leg off. So if you care about the trees, save a wooden leg and throw me a bone, eh?
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