Resizing AVI to VCD to fit on one cd

[PooFinger]

I am trying to resize a 87 minute avi file to fit on a 80min cd as VCD. I have lowered the bitrate but it still comes out as a 865MB file which is to big for one cd.

I am using TMPGEnc but it it annoying ther crap out of me becaus eeven if the bitrate is 400 its still the same file size.

Under virtual dub the frame size is 720x544, 25.000fps with 132249(1:28:09) frames. The decompressor is divx 5.0.2 codec. The audio sampling rate is 48000Hz with the compression as Fraunhofer llS MPEG Layer3 Codec.

Any ideas would be appreciated or a link.

Thanks

[deh707]

oh yes baby, my first time helping someone.

i used to have the same problem, but i got over it a couple weeks ago. the video is just over 7 minutes, no big quality affection here.

ok, open TMPGEnc, go to "Setting"

click on the "System" tab

change the "Stream type" to "MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard)"

that should do the trick.

for the 87 min. video, i would say the video bitrate should go to 1020, that's if u wanna leave the audio bitrate at 224.

[PooFinger]

Thanks, that seems to have done it. I was worried it would be something involved.

[Vejita-sama]

Two things come to mind. First a while back there was a verison/s of TMPGenc with a bug that no matter what bitrate you entered all MPEG1 encodes were done at 1150kbit/s (ie. VCD whitebook). So make sure you have the newest verison.

Second, don't quess at the bitrate you need use a bitrate calculator (see the Tools section to the left). Then follow the above steps to make an xVCD at the desired bitrate.

Remember that you can burn 800MB of MODE2 data to an 80min CDR.

[mats.hogberg]

Another solution would be to get a few 90 min CD-R, that will hold a 865MB mpeg without problems.

/Mats

[jjis]

I used the vcd non-standard to fit a 90 min movie on 1 cd, but after I burned it to a cd, the audio started to speed up at various spots in the movie

[deh707]

of course i used a bitrate calculator