How can I make my VCD just a bit smaller?

[Macros746]

Last night I did my first totally successful capture to Huffy/edit out commercials with Virtualdub (I really couldn't believe how easy this was)/frameserve, and encode to VCD. The quality was really pretty good (considering the signal from the cablebox WAS NOT perfect...grrrr. But the total length of the file weighed in at 430 mb. Is there someway to reduce the file just slightly without losing too much quality so that I could fit two episodes of a one hour show on a 700 mb (80 minute) CD?

Mark

[eyeofbeholder]

User Vertualdub and lower the frame rate.

[Freshman]

Hi Mark,

I assume you use TMPGEnc for encoding the mpeg-1 file? If so, load the appropriate PAL-Template and the unlock it by loading the "unlcock.mcf" afterwards. Doing this allows you to change the settings under "Setting".

Selecti "MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard)" for your stream type and try setting lower bitrates for video and/or audio. Since you don't want to reduce your filesize too dramatically, a small reduction might work for you, and your audio/video-quality wouldn't have to suffer that much.