Here is my quest...

[joe-mamma]

I've had this idea for a while but the new Lord of the rings movie trailer gave me some new motivation, what I want to do is place all 3 movie trailers on one vcd plus have a photo album of like 150 pics and I have the full bbc sessions of the radio version which is in total 10+ hours of audio. Now I know I can't fit all of that audio and the video on one vcd but I'm pretty sure I could do it on 2 cause I think the music album in winoncd supports 6+ hrs. Anyway I run into problems with the audio encoding, I would want to split the audio up into say three 20min sections for each of the hour long mp3's I have so I'd have as many 20 min sections in mp2 format (or whatever they should be in) as I could fit on each vcd. Which program is the fastest/best for converting the audio and what would be the best way to produce the whole thing once I have valid mpg audio files. Here is what i was thinking, I can't really use toolame for encoding cause of limited HD space cause it converts to temp wave file but if I need to I guess I could manage it, then I was thinking I'd use winoncd 3.8's extended editor to do the rest cause it should allow the audio I think? I am asking for advice, I'm not that new to this but I know there are a lot of people here who know more than me.Thanks and feel free to suggest anything.

PS for anybody interested in seeing that trailer that I mentioned here is a link to it :
http://www.hollywood.com/multimedia/detail/media/470433

PPS sorry for such a long post and vague question.

[disturbed1]

You load the whole 60min. mp3 into TMPG, use the time line under settings/advanced/source range, to start and stop the encoding where wanted. Then encode. That's about the fastes/easiest way I can think of for the audio.

A 20min 44.1KHZ 16bit stereo wav is ~201mb. If can spare that much, tooLame will give much better audio quality.

Sorry I don't know enough about WinOn CD to help with the rest.

[joe-mamma]

Thanks I'll look into that, and yeah I fear I will probably have to go the toolame route. Any other takers?