128 min movie on 1 CD using DVD2SVCD, is it possible?

[flitcher]

Last night I used DVD2SVCD to rip and convert The Game, I used some settings that were on a doom9.org forum that reduced the time to rip and convert but still kept the quality very good. I told DVD2SVCD that if the movie was between 125-163 mins to put it on 1 740 meg CD. I woke up this morning only to find out it was 1 mpeg file but it only went into about an hour and 15 mins into the movie. What I am wondering is can a 2 hour SVCD movie fit onto one cd or can it not be compressed that much? If not should I just rip the DVD and then convert it to DivX? Thanks.

[xzarkad]

You can put up to 80 minutes of VCD on a 700MB CD_R. in standard format.
You can put up to appx. 40-45 mins of SVCD on a 700MB CD-R in standard SVCD format.

You can put more on one CD, but this way you are loosing quality. If you will accept the loss of quality, then I would suggest not to use SVCD format, but VCD format, as, in that case, you are missing the point why SVCD was developed.

You cannot put 120 mins of SVCD format on a 650MB cd. (why are you using 650, and not 700MB for video compression?)
You can put 120 mins of VCD format on 1 CD (according to some people) but the quality will be poor.

Just think about this:
what is worse:
Looking at a poor quality movie for 2 hours, or changing a CD a have good quality?

[Devnull]

Actually if your player can handle VBR mpeg1 without any problems a vcd with 120 minutes of video won't have to be poor, depends on what the content is though. As for SVCD, you are asking for major blockyness if you try that. mpeg1 is way better at very low bitrates than mpeg2.

[jledhead]

you could do SVCD with bitrates max like 1700 and min 500 and average 1100 and it would fit on one CD. like said above the quality will be very bad probably. and if you are using bitrates that low just do it as VCD.