Fitting a 2 hour MPEG movie on one VCD

[djackson75]

I have an MPEG movie saved on my hard drive that's around 2 hours long. Is there any way possible to encode this movie to fit on a regular CD in VCD form. I'm totally new to this whole thing, and couldn't find a guide that showed me how. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[andkiich]

There is no way to do it and still keep it within the VCD specification. You can use a program like TMPGENc to re-encode and lower the bitrate, but how much less than 1150 will you be willing to accept on the bitrate?

It's either bump up and go bigger(DVD-VCD) or span discs IMHO.

[Gazorgan]

Search kvcd , that's your only option for a single CDR.

[jimmalenko]

1150kbps equates to 70min on a CD-R. This means that you would have to re-encode to around the 600kbps mark using TMPGEnc. You would then be creating an XVCD because it would not comply to the "true" VCD standard. A fair few DVD players would still play it though. If I were doing it and it was a must to fit on 1 cd I would use 2-pass VBR because it should give an overall better finish than CBR.

[reboot]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/84759.php

[ghoster]

the quality would be horrible, its not worth it.