99 min cdr (minutes for megabytes?)

[boboyo]

ive been encoding to mpeg with tmpge to maximize quality to fit films onto one 99min cdr...

so ive been making my mpeg about 990meg but when burning in nero the minute scale at the bottom tells me the file is over 110mins???

i thought it was a minute for 10 meg with vcd so where am i going wrong?

anyone?

[Bobby]

Hey boboyo,
I cannot offer you much advice im sorry,
but I can tell you that i use 700mb 80 minute cdrs. They have a max of about 700mb (without overburning). I used to use old 650mb 74 minute cdrs before the 80 minute cdrs came out. I think you need to work out exactly how much these 99 minute cdr's can hold in Mb's as 99 minutes does not equal 990mb just like 80 minute cdrs = 700mb.
I have never used 99 minute cdr's although I am Very Interested in were you can buy them, what make the are and also if they will work with a standard cdr burner??
I own a LG GCE-8160-B does anyone know if i can use these 99mb cdr's with it?
Sorry if the above sounds confusing its kinda hard to explain as i dont know exactly how much a 99minute cdr is worth in mb's.
Bobby.

[boboyo]

bobby - as far as vcd goes - you can fit 800meg mpegs on an 80 min cdr even though its only a 700meg cdr! (this is without overburning)

it works out 10 megs per minute of cdr with vcds

i thought this would be the same with 900meg 99min cdrs but maybe not

as for where to get them - try www.microdirect.co.uk (25 for £11.75)

my burner is an lg (i think its the same as yours) & can write them at x4 speed but if u wanna check i think theres a compatibility list on this site somewhere!

[ChRaN]

80min (703Mb mode1) (800Mb mode2) media can hold 80 min of vcd play time and
99min media (860Mb mode1) (990Mb mode2) holds 99 min if burned i mode2 (VCD standard)

[puertorican138]

Bobby, Your burner supports overburning, 90 minute CD-R's and 99 minute CD-R's.


You should find it here:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/cdwriters.php

[boboyo]

ChRaN

thanks for the reply but the minute scale does not change if i have standard copliance checked or not in nero

can you help further?

should the 980 min mpeg burn to 99min media no probs? coz sometimes it gets to 99 mins & then errors!...maybe ill try a few with standard compliance checked

[thxkid]

For VCD and SVCD burning only not data you can fit 795MB on one 80min. CD-R. On the 99min. CD-R's I have burned about 100 of them I easily get 965MB on one I usually stay between 950 and 965MB on them and have no problem with them. Keep in mind a lot of the DVD players out there will not play them like Panasonic and toshiba, APEX and Daewoo have no problems playing them. If you burn 99min. CD-R's with over 850MB of VCD or SVCD Data you can never copy that information off from that CD-R again, why I have no idea but it will not.
CompUSA use to sell them at $9.99 for a 16 pack, when I heard they were no longer gonna carry them here in Phoenix I bought up what I could, I now have 8 packs of 16 left. Hardly ever use them now since I bought 2 Home DVD Recorders.

[Bobby]

thxkid are you saying that it isnt worth using 99 minute cdrs?
Surely if i make an iso of the cd i can copy it to another 99 minute cdr?
My plan is to make copies of dvds to 2 99 minute cdr movies using the cvd format. At the moment im using 3 80 minute cdrs for my cvd's but i would glady lower the bitrate and fit them onto 2 99 minute discs!! But not if i cannot make copies of them
Any ideas?
Thanx.