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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 814158" data-attributes="member: 18896">Re: AW: Re: Single episode 2 parts, How to see as 1You *ONLY* need to re-encode if you want to alter the video-codec and/or audio-codec. Re-encoding audio codec can be done fast; even a slow system can cope with that in a timespan of a few minutes per hours worth of audio-codec material.So the problem would be the video-codec. Still even if you are forced to do so, you can make sacrifices in quality or filesize to gain extra speed to get the job done, quick single pass at a good bitrate for example will not get you any filesize reduction but it will convert fast even on a slow computer. I still find it highly unlikely that you have 2 halfs of a single episode and they would be in a different video-codec.Different containers themselves are not a problem, if the software you use is not capable of directly merging say an AVI and MP4 into an MKV, then you simply have to convert one into the other first, so you end up with two of the same containers and then merge them into the result. There are countless tools available to assist you in the remuxing process. AVI Mux GUI (does a lot more then just AVI), mkvmerge, etc. And those tools do not touch the codecs, they only work with the containers. The result is usually created as fast as your harddisks can copy a file.A container is nothing more then a way to hold all the codecs together and interleave them together via keyframes and other methods so that they can be synced up during playback.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 814158, member: 18896"] [b]Re: AW: Re: Single episode 2 parts, How to see as 1[/b] You *ONLY* need to re-encode if you want to alter the video-codec and/or audio-codec. Re-encoding audio codec can be done fast; even a slow system can cope with that in a timespan of a few minutes per hours worth of audio-codec material. So the problem would be the video-codec. Still even if you are forced to do so, you can make sacrifices in quality or filesize to gain extra speed to get the job done, quick single pass at a good bitrate for example will not get you any filesize reduction but it will convert fast even on a slow computer. I still find it highly unlikely that you have 2 halfs of a single episode and they would be in a different video-codec. Different containers themselves are not a problem, if the software you use is not capable of directly merging say an AVI and MP4 into an MKV, then you simply have to convert one into the other first, so you end up with two of the same containers and then merge them into the result. There are countless tools available to assist you in the remuxing process. AVI Mux GUI (does a lot more then just AVI), mkvmerge, etc. And those tools do not touch the codecs, they only work with the containers. The result is usually created as fast as your harddisks can copy a file. A container is nothing more then a way to hold all the codecs together and interleave them together via keyframes and other methods so that they can be synced up during playback. [/QUOTE]

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