Tutorial about joining avi video parts with VirtualDub

This is a short "How to" about joining video parts with a program called "VirtualDub"
which is a cool program for other things too

Before I start, a short translation. I'm german, so my dialog buttons are in german too.
In some snapshots you have to click on a button "Speichern" that means "Save", in other
you'll see "Öffnen" that means "Open".

Well now let's start...

The official homepage is at: http://www.virtualdub.org
You can download the program at: http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net

At the moment you can download a stable v1.5.10 and an experimental v1.6.1.
I choose the stable v1.5.10 for this "How to"

After downloading, make a folder where you want to copy the contents of
the VirtualDub zip file and unzip all files into.

Then start the program "VirtualDub.exe".

This is how VirtualDub looks like:

To join video parts, you first have to choose the first part.
Click on "File" and choose "Open video file":

Now choose the first of all files. (In this case it's part 000):

Now click on "File" and then on "Append AVI segment...":

Make sure, "Automatically load linked segments" is checked:

Then choose the second part which should be appended. (In this case it's part 001):

Because you checked "Automatically load linked segments", you selected files 001 upto 010 here.
You can see it at the status line at the bottom:

You can see, VirtualDub appended 10 segments (001-010) to part 000.
Now you have to click on "Video" and have to choose "Direct stream copy":

Make sure that "Direct stream copy" is also selected in the "Audio" menu:

To make a joined file, click on "File" and then on "Save as AVI...":

Now choose a name for the joined file:

Now VirtualDub is joining the video parts:

When it's finished, you will have a joined avi which contains parts 000 upto 010.

Now sometimes later you maybe get another 4 parts (011-014).
You can now append them to the joined file the same way as before.

You select the joined file:

Then append the parts 011-014. Select file 011 in the "Append AVI segment..." dialog.
Make sure, "Automatically load linked segments" is checked:

You can see, VirtualDub appended the 4 new parts to the old joined file. (Look at the status line at the bottom):