Black Hawk Down problem

[Deviant]

OK, I have part 1 of Black Hawk Down, which is about 72 min. It is a 702MB Avi file. I tried converting to VCD using TMPGEnc under the assumption that I could fit this 72 min on 1 80 min CD with little or no quality loss. I am new to this, and I have tried reading the FAQs and How-to's before asking this question. after encoding it once at the efault bitrate, the file came to be like 1.8 GB. Then i tried to lower the bitrate so it would fit on a CD, but I had to lower it to like 400 kb/s. This doesn't make sense, as I have read that you might have to lower the bitrate to 900 kb/s to fit a large file on one CD. This isnt my problem since the original is 72 min and not say, 90 min. What am I doing wrong here?

[Deviant]

anyone?

[jledhead]

even though the mins is under the total amount, the size still does matter, no matter what any girl tells you

but for real, lets say you encode a 30 min movie using a bitrate of about 3000, just because the 30 mins will fit on a 90 mins disc 3 times, doesn't mean that the file size will also. I would also like to add the decreasing the bitrate lowers the quality of the movie, so for something like blackhawk down, I would want the bitrate on SVCD to average over 2000 and for vcd average 1100. But thats just my opinion.

size does matter

[lilmarkie]

To be honest it toatally depends on where you got your movie at. I got one exactly like that, 72 mins. I encoded it but there was no audio every time i tried. Also it thinks its like 3 hrs. I stopped the encoding process when it got to the end of the 72 mins. if you dont watch it at the end it'll keep encoding hours of nothing. So i deleted mine.

[Mordant]

If you used the correct VCD template at the default bitrate of 1150 video and 224 audio you will be able to fit 80 minutes on a single CD...you must have not used the VCD template (and you should also make sure its correct for the frame rate of your divx)...and you will certainly see a loss in quality when making a VCD. First the resolution is lower so the picture will not be as sharp, and second the bitrate is much lower so you will see mpeg blocks and noise in scenes with action.