Sick of them damn inflated file sizes!

[panterajake]

i have some tv shows that are rougly 20 meg avi's and i want to convert them to mpg but when i began to compile the files for re-encoding, to my shock they have inflated to the likes of 178 megs +! quality is not the highest priority for me.....is there any suggested templates or settings i can use to keep the mpgs small as possible and keep the encoding reasonably small, near real time and not have it looking like a 15k/s rm file...i hope it not asking for much any way to knock out one of those problems would be greatly appreciated....THANKS ALOT DUDES!

Dan

[bigbear]

it depends on the bitrate of the avi's (for both video & audio). If the avi is at a smaller bitrate than a standard VCD/SVCD, and you use tmpgenc to convert the file to one of these standards, the filesize will be bigger. I have encountered this same issue.

I would suggest trying to find out what the bitrate is of the original AVI and making a template in TMPGenc that comes close, then making an XVCD (non-compliant MPEG stream) and try playing it in your DVD player (I'm assuming that's the intended target).