vcd quality, bitrates and file size.

[kevlar69]

I'm new to this so could do with a bit of help. I would really like to fit most films on 1 cd, but am unsure how to achive this. I've read a few posts which say about vbr etc and ' fitcd ' for calculations, but these seem aimed at svcd. Can you make a vcd fit on 1 cd by adjusting anything?. I'm using TMPGEnc, but have only used default settings. Obviously I don't want to compromise quality if I can help it. If it is possible to fit more than 80mins on a vcd what would be the maximum?

Thanks in advance

Kevlar69

[kevlar69]

can' anyone help a newbie? Please?

Kevlar69

[Truman]

http://forum.vcdhelp.com/search.php
You may read one of these infamous "24hours on 1 CD" topics.
VCD has fixed specs, you can fit up to 74 minutes on a 74 min CD.
SVCD and "XVCD" allow varialbe/ lower / higher bitrates. With a bitrate calculator, e.g. FitCD, you can calculate the bitrate as long as you encode in CBR or (at least 2-)multipass VBR mode.
The lower the average bitrate, the higher amount of time you can fit on one CD, but the lower the bitrate the lower the quality, short said.
More details here:
http://forum.vcdhelp.com/search.php

[kevlar69]

Thanks for the reply, so if you adjust bitrates on svcd to fit a certain size, will it still play on a svcd compatible dvd player?

thanks again

Kevlar

[Truman]

yes, as long as you keep the total bitrate within the SVCD standard bounderies.