My DVD player accepts bitrate as low as 600 kbps

[yaleyard]

I burnt some one minute samples as CVD with following profiles and amazingly they all play on my SUPER DVD-903. Only slight blocks are noticed on the samples below 700. Also the actor's head seems to twitch which might have to do with my burning too fast (4x)

The player LCD SCREEN detects & displays SVCD and starts playing. I can fast forward up to 4x speed with no problem.
RES= 352 X 480, CONSTANT zero quality (ENCODED BY TmpeEng)
Clip file size based on one minute burned on a 700m capacity CD with Nero at 4x
CLIP 1) 600 MIN /2520 MAX = 6167 kb
CLIP 2) 700 MIN /2520 MAX = 6933 kb
CLIP 3) 800 MIN /2520 MAX = 7671 kb
CLIP 4) 900 MIN /2520 MAX = 8357 kb
CLIP 5) 1000 MIN /2520 MAX = 9169 kb

CONSTANT yields the least file size, Quality at zero to 25 yields same file size. When setting is slided to 50, file size starts to move upwards.
The next lowest size yielders are VBR automatic and VBR MANUAL. Then 2 pass almost doubles.

I have some 120 minute length movie to encode, in order to fit on one cd, I figure that I must squeeze some 5888 kb in a minute which I am going to try. Or I can leave it at that and use a 800 m CD which I dont know if my player will accept.

[adam]

Filesize is dependant on bitrate. 2-pass vbr, automatic vbr...these do not result in larger filesizes you are simply allowing them to use more bitrate. With 2-pass vbr you can calculate the avg bitrate to use so you can make it any filesize you want.

Most dvd players have no problem playing bitrates that low, the problem is that at those bitrates the quality is pretty poor.