huge svcd file

[juneau69]

I converted an avi to mpeg and now I have a 2145189 kb. Any idea how I did this and how to avoid it?
Thanks! 8)

[tonyp12]

How long (in minutes) of a clip is it?

Is it a DIVX AVI?

What do you plan to do with the mpeg?

So you maybe encoded it in SVCD's 2520 bitrate
and it ended up being 2.1GB

That is normal for a movie that is close to 2hours long.

[juneau69]

the movie is now just over 111 minutes long. It was an avi. I want to play it on a stand alone player. I did not write down the bitrate so I don't know what it was when I encoded it.
Thanks for your reply.

[Jam_Bo]

You can "press" a 111 min on one CD (in SVCD Format) but you will get very poor quality. You should take two CD of 80min. The take any bitratecalculator (have a look into the Tool section of VCDHelp) and determine the maxmimal bitrate for conversion. A SVCD may not exceed a maximum 2748 kBit/s. Assuming your Audio stream is 128 kBit/s there will left 2620 maximum kBit/s for the video stream. To fit the film onto 2 CDs you have to decrease the average bitrate, which will be calculated by the bitrate calculator.
After conversion you can split the result to burn each part onto CD.

greetz
Jam_Bo

[juneau69]

Jam Bo
Appreicate your help. I will try what you suggested.
Again thanks for responding.