90 Minute SVCD??? I don't get it !!!!!!!

[WRCoach]

I am not sure how this has happened, but using TMPGEnc 2.02, I encoded some video files in SVCD format (480x480) and the file size that came out (at high quality, I might add) have fit on a single SVCD totalling almost 90 minutes in playing time. There is no skipping....the quality is excellent, at it plays just fine on my Pioneer 525!! Remember, this was SVCD, not an XVCD. The frame size is recognized as 480x480 by Nero.

Did I miss something here, or have the compression standards with 2.02 changed significantly? Am I the only one who has experienced this? Let me know.

[IGuaNAdoN]

what is the bitrate?

[Vejita-sama]

The resolution and motion search you use have no affect on the size of the encoded MPEG file, only the bitrate and runtime matter. For a 90min source to fit on 1 80min CDR (w/ audio at 224kbit/s) the video bitrate would have to be ~978kbit/s.

Use VCDeasy's mpeg analyis tool to check the bitrate (and MPEG1 vs. MPEG2).

[WRCoach]

The settings with the template I loaded are:

Super Video-CD NTSC (MPEG-2 480x480 29.97fps CQ 65, Layer-2 44100Hz 224kbps)

Where do i find VCDEasy's tool?

[Vejita-sama]

You can d/load VCDEasy from http://www.doom9.org Hmm that looks like the basic (old) SVCD template. Is it possble that your source has so little motion that there was no need to for the VBR to raise the bitrate above the minimum? Still your bitrate HAS to be low to get 90min on 1 80min CDR.

D/load VCDEasy. It has several tools, one of them is Mpeg Anaylsis, see that that has to say about all this