1.7GB MPEG FILE

[mrflabby]

I captured a home video tape and the result for just 37minites were an astonishing 1.7GB. Is there any way I can compress that to fit a vcd. Can I put it into a DVD? How?
thanks!!

[teegee420]

A little more info about your mpeg's specs would help. Open it with Virtualdub MPEG2 and go to File>File Information. Post the resolution, frame rate, data rate and audio data rate. Your options for what to do with this file sort of depend on these details.

[SLK001]

I captured a home video tape and the result for just 37minites were an astonishing 1.7GB. Is there any way I can compress that to fit a vcd. Can I put it into a DVD? How?
thanks!!

That's a lot? Last night, I captured a 50 minute video tape, and the resulting file was about 22 GIGAbytes in size. You must be capturing directly to MPEG.

[Jayhawk]

I captured a home video tape and the result for just 37minites were an astonishing 1.7GB. Is there any way I can compress that to fit a vcd. Can I put it into a DVD? How?
thanks!!

My guess is you are capturing to MPG2 and you bitrate is probably around 6,000 or 6,200 for 720 X 480 resolution. That will give you a file size of 1.6 and change for 40 minutes.

[PIntag]

I captured a home video tape and the result for just 37minites were an astonishing 1.7GB. Is there any way I can compress that to fit a vcd. Can I put it into a DVD? How?
thanks!!

That's a lot? Last night, I captured a 50 minute video tape, and the resulting file was about 22 GIGAbytes in size. You must be capturing directly to MPEG.

Yeah 1.7GB is not at all "astonishing" when you are talking about digital video. Heck, I have almost maxed out my 200GB of hard disk with only 15 or so hours of digital video (DV format). Ha! 1.7GB -- I laugh at that!