The VideoLAN Forums

First, thanks to VLC developers, great player, working fine!
A couple quick questions:
I downloladed Divx movie clips from a site that has, say, a 10 minute video, but it's broken up into 4 or 5 segments, probably to keep the amount of megabyte download lower. So now I have a ten minute movie on my hard disk that's broken up into 5 sepearate files. Is there any way to "join" the 5 segments into one long-playing clip? Do tools for that exist within VLC, and if not, is there a recommended program for splicing segments together, for Mac OSX?
Also, when I increase the player's screen size form "normal" to "double size" and then again to "full screen", although all the images still remain clear enough to view, it definitely looses some sharpness with each size increase. Any way to compensate for that and "force" the image back to crisp sharpness?
Thanks again!

While I don't know how to join clips in MacOS, you could use virtual pc (which I believe is a bit of Mac software that lets you create a PC-like environment) and VirtualDub to join the clips. If you have a friend with a PC, it would be a lot easier to ask them to install VirtualDub and let you join the files on their PC

Anyway, to join the files you load the first one into VirtualDub, select Direct Stream Copy for both Video and Audio streams, then use File->Append AVI segment. Repeat this for all the segments and then click Save As and save the single, joined AVI.

Alternately, you could just add them all to a playlist in vlc, so it flicks automatically to the next file

Sadly, there are only a certain number of pixels in the video stream, so making the size of the picture bigger will worsen the quality. You can adjust the picture slightly to gain a subjectively better picture with filters - I tend to try the different deinterlace methods to smooth or sharpen poor quality video.