[Anglo]

How do I join 2 mpeg and audio files together to make one DVD to view as one video file, not two halves? My files are below for one complete video. I downloaded it as this but would like to burn as one. Or would the compression to burn onto a 4.7gb DVD be too much? How do I do it please?

[tsantee]

Toast cannot join the two video files. However if you choose Play All Items Continuously where you are setting up the menu the end of the first video will move ahead to the start of the next when playing back the file.

[Anglo]

Toast cannot join the two video files. However if you choose Play All Items Continuously where you are setting up the menu the end of the first video will move ahead to the start of the next when playing back the file.

Thank you for your reply. I understand. However there is still the issue of size. As you can see from my grab the combined size of both files, mpeg and audio, is far in excess the capacity of a normal dvd. If I continue to do the above will quality suffer greatly due to the compression required? Unfortunately I do not have Blu Ray.

Edit:
Sorry I am getting confused! My grab is AFTER Toast has converted and saved after burning.

What I have is 2 original avi files that are approx 698 mb each so I assume they can be stitched together presumably by Toast to play continuously as you suggest. Nevertheless my original point re quality and size still applies. Will the final result be so bad?

This post has been edited by Anglo: 22 February 2009 - 05:40 AM

[tsantee]

Thank you for your reply. I understand. However there is still the issue of size. As you can see from my grab the combined size of both files, mpeg and audio, is far in excess the capacity of a normal dvd. If I continue to do the above will quality suffer greatly due to the compression required? Unfortunately I do not have Blu Ray.

Edit:
Sorry I am getting confused! My grab is AFTER Toast has converted and saved after burning.

What I have is 2 original avi files that are approx 698 mb each so I assume they can be stitched together presumably by Toast to play continuously as you suggest. Nevertheless my original point re quality and size still applies. Will the final result be so bad?

What I would do with those is choose Save as Disc Image and indicate that I am making a dual-layer DVD. When the disc image is done, I'd select it with the Image File setting in the Copy window and use Fit-to-DVD to requantize the video to fit a single-layer disc. Requantizing can achieve somewhat better picture quality than lowering the encoding bit rate to fit a single-layer disc in the first place.