Probably been answered but...

[jjacob26]

I need help with a file that I converted with tmpgenc. When I converted the file it went from 329mb to 1.09gb but it's only 54 min long...Trying to look through the posts and see if I can find some clues on what I can do besides splitting the file into 3 or more discs for one movie! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[NeWcS]

Im pretty new at this so I may be wrong but I dont think the file size matters as long as the running time of the video is less then 74/80min.

Someone let me know if im wrong!

[disturbed1]

File size depends on the bitrate used to encode. Here's a sample....

Video @ 1150Kbits/sec x 3600sec(1hour)=4140000Kbits
Audio @ 224Kbits/sec x 3600sec(1hour)= 806400Kbits
4946400Kbits / 8= 618300Kbytes / 1024 = ~604Megabytes.

A 74 minute CD burned in Mode2XA(VCD format) can hold ~740MB
80 minute = ~804MB.

[Sully]

Exactly disturbed1.

To add to that... Yes size matters too. You can only fit SO MUCH onto 1 CD. If you don't want to split your file you'll have to encode at a lower bitrate. Although anything more than 1 hour per CD will end up being very blocky.

[Riot_Inc]

But, you can use Sefy's SeVCD templates to convert and they'll give a real small size where you can fit a movie into a cd, but sometimes there's some bad blockyness at parts.. But they work real well
you could always give those a try.