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Howdy all

Can someone please recommend a program I could use to join 4 .avi files without losing dual audio channels?

I have 4 different files, with dual audio on two of them (single audio on the other 2). Originally, they are about 1.5Gig in size, and I'd like to keep them that way after joining.

The free programs I've tried so far drop the 2nd audio channells and I end up with a 14Gig file at the end. Can someone help me?
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The AVIs would have to be similarly encoded (ie. codec, bitrate, resolution, etc) for you to be able to join them. What I recommend you do is:

* Use VirtualDub to retrieve the 2nd audio streams from the two files that have 2 streams.
* Join these 2 audio streams together with an audio program suitable to the audio type.
* Rename the 4 AVI files with consecutive numbering in their filename. This will allow you to join the 4 AVI's together with VirtualDub's "append segment" feature.
* (Assuming that works,) You can then open the new concatenated AVI file in VirtualDub and use the audio tools to mux in the now-joined 2nd audio stream.

I could be off on this. It depends on if the AVIs can be joined and what the case is with the audio filetypes and such.

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"* Rename the 4 AVI files with consecutive numbering in their filename. This will allow you to join the 4 AVI's together with VirtualDub's "append segment" feature."

I've never had to rename/renumber the files. I just select them one at a time.

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It's true that you don't have to rename them. I usually deal with consecutive numbering though (output from a digital camera), and I think if they're numbered you can have Vdub select them automatically (useful for me as I have many files to join at times).

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thanks for answering, Klokwerk

Okay, got Virtual Dub and the single audio files are all able to be joined, as are the dual audio files. So we're good there. As you said, joining both cannot be done directly. So, now I need to ask a real noob question = HOW do I retrieve the 2nd audio channel using Virtual Dub? I played around with every setting I could think of and understand (not many, LOL). I managed to create a .wav of the main audio stream, but can't figure out how to even play the second one with VD, let alone capture it. Thanx in advance!

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Spyder, you will want to get VirtualDubMod (I use this and I'm guessing that the "Streams" menu is a feature specific to this version of VirtualDub). Once you get it, click on the "streams" menu and then "stream list". You should see a dialog box where you're able to save the audio/video streams.

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