Bitrate problems-frameserving SVCD to SVCD to resize image

[Wills]

I've got a 2 CD SVCD movie, which was encoded at the wrong size - it's full screen when the original film was 1.78:1.

So I'm using VirtualDub (MPG Version) to frameserve it to TMPGEnc with a resize filter (about 480x355 instead of 480x480).

So far so good. But, a major problem! I want to put these on CD afterwards, obviously.

The original files are 100% of a 700 Meg CD (about 778 Meg). Since I'm frameserving to TMPGEnc, I can't use the Wizard, which means I can't use the bitrate calculator in the wizard to work out the average bitrate to make it 100% of a 700 Meg CD again. If I leave it as 2520 Kbits per sec (default for SVCD), it makes each half about 1.3 gigs.

I know that sometimes TMPGEnc can be tricked into opening the Wizard on SVCDs to get to the calculator stage and then cancelling - by installing PowerDVD. I've done this before and had it working before. But for some reason when I try this with these files, TMGEnc crashes out.

How can I figure out the bitrate to give TMPGEnc ? Or even better, how can I invoke the bitrate calculator without using the wizard? I 've had a swizz through the site here about bitrate calculators and am completely lost. Help!!

[VCDHunter]

Cant you use a bit rate calculator ? I think there is a link to one in the site here.

Here ya go i think

[reboot]

https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm (see your other post).

[BJ_M]

please do not double post