What is wrong here?

[Papageof]

I have some tv shows i want to burn to SVCD or even XVCD and no matter what i do they always come out too big. I have used all the bitrate calculators on this site and have stayed under all of them and they still make the file too big. Last night converted a 43min show to mpeg2 at 2267Kb/s the audio was at 192 and all bit rate calcs said that it would fitt on an 80Min disk and it is 57MB too big. This is a big pain cause it takes to long to just reconvert these things all the time.

I am using Tmpg
and nero 5.x not sure off top of head

This is very frustrating could some one please tell me what settings to use before I just blow this darn thing up!

[Hateslife]

VCD's and SVCD's use no error correction at all, unlike a normal cd. You can fit just short of 800 mb on a 80 minute disk, 796 or 97 or something.

Edit: Oh yeah, never use Nero to burn SVCD's. It's fine for VCD's, but nero SVCD's are non-compliant and not-fast-forwardable. Real pain in the ass.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Hateslife on 2001-11-22 21:06:08 ]</font>

[JStyle]

Really? So what proggy is good to burn svcds?

[vhelp]

jstyle, hateslife,

I use Nero and ben using it for about a year now. After my short lived VCDing,
I've ben doing nothing but SVCDs with Nero. Countless. In fact, I do more test
clips and burning to CDRW's pretty much on a daily based 5 or 10 cds easy, and
all with Nero.

Just some facts:
* I cap 352x480 (many small clips w/ Haup or DC10+ )
* my encodings are: I frameserve from VD to TMPGenc
with specs as: bitrate is 2520max/1850min/128k audio
* Burn with Nero to SVCD and I uncheck the SVCD complisance box
* I play ALL my burned clips on my Apex AD-500 and AD-1500 players pefectly.
And, I since FF/RW don't work, what I do is drag a file into Nero's EXT directory
and then my FF/RW works fine. I can FF/RW up to 4x speed. The file I drag
in to Nero is SCANDATA.DAT
If you would like to rule out weather or not its your MPEG2 files, then by all
means, visit my samples site and (wait) download some sample clips and
just burn with Nero. These clips are for burning to cd to be viewed on TV, and
I KNOW that they burn with Nero without a hitch and plays fine on both my
Apex dvd players. If any of them work, then you can safely say that it's
probably something in YOUR encoding process that causing your failed
attempts.

Good Luck!


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DC10+ Samples to taste (some Hauppauge too)

[Papageof]

I thought you could only fit 700MB on an 80Min cd-r. At least that is all you can fit on the ones i have always bought. I am having another problem now though, I have gotten one show done of course it is too big but i will just redo it later i guess, anyway I have tried to do the other one and now it won't encode the sound from the .avi the origional plays fine but the new mpeg has no sound. I have it set to 192Kbits/stereo. Same settings i just used on the other one and it worked fine. I have done bits and peices of this file before and thought it was corupted but i just replaced it with a backup i had and it still won't work. I have also tried to just encode the sound and that doesn't work also. I am stumped.

[vhelp]

Pagageof,

what are you talking about?
Are you talking about the avi file? or, your MPEG file?
In any case, if all this starts from your avi file, then, does
your avi file play fine (with sound)??

if it does, I'm stumped too!!
Ok, is the sound in your AVI file very low?
You can try and amplify it in tmpgenc, under advanced tab
and select the [x] Audio box, and [x] check the first box
and click the button to re-encode the audio a bit louder.
This works for me on low audio sound captures.

Wouldn't hurt to give more details on your process, start to
finish. We could better help.

[Papageof]

Okay. I am starting out with an avi. Yes the avi has sound and it is quite loud as a matter of fact. However the mpeg that I rip from the avi does not have sound. Last night I started with a clean slate:New copy of the file, and a new install of tmpgenc. Oh and you want the quirkiest thing of them all? It takes the last frame and just encodes it for ever so the show is twice as long as it should be! Easily fixed with a cut though.

I set it to 320x240 (I like it more than 480x480 and it still plays. it is also the source res.) Mpeg-2 1860Kbits/s+192Kbits audio.(going for one cd here)Non-interlaced and High quality motion search.

For the audio it is just set at 192Kbits+44,100Hz+Stereo Mpeg-1 layerII and no boxes checked or emphasis set. I also have the stream type box selected as system(video+audio)I have tried setting that to just audio and no sound comes from that either. It make no sence you see.