Can I compress and SVCD?

[dusco]

i have a 1.23GB SVCD mpg file and i was wanting to fit this on one CDR, Is there anyway to compress it to fit on one CD ?


Thanks.

[guns1inger]

Not as an SVCD. What is the running time ?

[dusco]

running time is 1:49:02

[dusco]

i used WinAVI Video Converter, the SVCD was a 701MB Xvid at one time

[guns1inger]

SVCD allows for around 42 minutes on a standard CD (650 MB). A good SVCD encoding program (and WinAVI is not a good program, period) would break the SVCD down into as many discs as were required - in your case, 3 discs. If you lower the bitrate then you can get 60 minutes on a disc, but you are down around VCD bitrates, and mpeg2 isn't as kind as mpeg 1 at those rates. That, and the higher resolution, would mean sub-VCD image quality.

Seriously, SVCD is like VCD and the Dodo. Why would you want to encode for SVCD ? It's not universally supported, it is sub-DVD in quality, and you can watch a movie without getting off the couch at least once.

[dusco]

When SVCD is your only choice, it has to do, and ive burned whole movies to one CDR alot of times really everytime, this is the only movie i cant burn like i always do

[guns1inger]

Video has a universal rule : size = running time x bitrate. If you want more running time, encode at a lower bitrate. WinAVI is not the tool to be using to do this though.