joined avis triples in size with VirtualDub

[ducksredux]

howdy! I tried using VirtualDub 1.6 to join 4 avi files of about 20MB each. End result was 250MB. Any way I can keep it the same size so it comes out as 80MB?

[paglamon]

howdy! I tried using VirtualDub 1.6 to join 4 avi files of about 20MB each. End result was 250MB. Any way I can keep it the same size so it comes out as 80MB?

Before joining,make sure that you have ticked DIRECT STREAM COPY under VIDEO and AUDIO.

[ducksredux]

yah, they're checked, but the files still triple. Tried to join 2 20MB files and it came out at 120MB

[paglamon]

It is not possible.Please give details of the steps you are taking to join the avi files.And also the file information of the original files(from VD).

[ducksredux]

well, before I do that, I noticed that the new video is 3 minutes in length whereas the two videos I was joining are only 30 seconds each. There are 9 videos in the folder, sequentially numbered. It looks like VirtualDub joined 6 of them together, even tho I only told it to join 2. So I moved 2 to a new folder separate from the others and joined them, and it worked perfectly.

[paglamon]

So ,you see,the fault was not with VD . You can also try AVIMuxGUI for joining AVIs.