Something wierd

[punchbuggy]

My friend recently converted a 99min divx into an mpeg2 witha bit rate of 2500 and the entire movie fits on to 2 80 min cdrs, however when i enter the data into the bitrate calculator provided b vcdhelp, it says that for the movei to fit on 2 80 min cdrs the bitrate of the mpeg2 must be 1900.

Can anybody explain this?

[punchbuggy]

Can anybody help pleasE?

[w00kiee]

the final average bitrate must be 1900 (thats assuming no overburning) .. a setting of svcd vbr setting of 2500 will get you somewhere around 1900 most of the time

so it makes sense

[punchbuggy]

so if i used vbr should i set
the average - 1900
maximum - 2500
min - ???

[w00kiee]

minimum - 1150 would work.. if you use 1900 as minimum the whole thing will be 1900 so gotta start at about 1500 or less