900 MB MPEG to 700MB CDR?

[Nicholas S. Folsom]

Is this possible? I have seen a MPEGs that say vcd ready and it's in two parts. The first is 939,236KB and the second is 829,393KB. I currently have the same movie files, but as DiVX avi's and am currently encoding them into MPEG with TMPGEnc.

Thanks,
Nick

[JamieBecks23]

Nope, only 800MB. Must be MPG1, 1500 kbps and vcd compliant. Looks like you got a 4cd movie

[JamieBecks23]

Meant 1150 kbps

[RoopeT]

The first part requires a 90 min CD (and a burner supporting those discs)

[mpb]

Not necessarily. It CAN work. If you've encoded to CBR 1150/224/44.1 and it's 69:59 or less, it will fit on a 80min/700mb CD-R, even if the mpeg file itself is well over 800 megs. This is possible because VCDs are written in a different mode than traditional data discs. A fully compliant video stream will fit in minutes, not in bytes.

However, many movie MPEGs on the net are not encoded at the standard rates, and hence, problems.

[RoopeT]

If you've encoded to CBR 1150/224/44.1 and it's 69:59 or less, it will fit on a 80min/700mb CD-R,

Actually you can burn 79:59 on a 80 min CD if it's encoded within VCD standards. However, if the file to be burned is 939,236KB ~ 900 MB, it's supposed to be burned onto a 90 min CD