Hovewer, FRAPS makes huge files while recording gameplay because there is no time for processor to compress video. So even not long 1 minute video can take up to 700 Mb space on your HDD not to mention lagging while recording.

Today my example will be a short “Alone in the dark” gameplay clip, which takes 48 seconds and originally used a bit more than 451Mb of space. Keeping such huge files on your computer will certainly clog the entire hard drive so you need to shrink videos to a more manageable size.

Basically you will need 1  program and 1 codec: VirtualDub as video editor and XviD Codec for encoding Fraps AVIs.

• At first install Koepi’s Xvid Codec;
  
• Then start Virtual Dub and open your video file (File->Open video file…);
• Set compression ( Video->Compression) to Xvid MPEG-4 Codec:
  
  
• Now to start video conversion you need to go to File->Save as Avi (shortcut F7) and select the file save location.

This codec converts videos REALLY fast and the quality is simply superb. To make you believe below I added actual screenshots from 2 converted videos using some ffdshow codec that was installed probably by some codec pack earlier and the Koepi’s codec:

ORIGINAL VERSION: 451Mb

FFDSHOW CODEC: 15Mb

Koepi’s codec: 22Mb

Koepi’s codec did just the right quality and video size without any further adjustments. I think it’ll be my codec of choice for a long time.

At first you must open any text editor (notepad fo exmple) and paste this line:

copy /b *.ts joined_files.ts

Now save the file with a name joiner.bat. Be sure that the end of the file is .bat and not .txt. Select save as type All files if needed.

Now the procedure is simple. Name you .ts files in a way that when sorted by name you get the desired joining sequence. 1.ts 2.ts and so on will do the job.

Place your just created file joiner.bat in the same folder where .ts files are and double click it. The joining process should start and after several seconds you will get one large file called joined_files.ts which contains all the smaller parts.

join-ts-files

If you join .ts files recorded from dvb-t tuner and the joined file doesn’t play properly this is probably the error in the file itself and not the joining method. You can try to encode .ts files into different format and then join with other video editing program.