.AVI (DIVX) to SVCD MPEG2 problem...

[strobe_z]

I'm trying to convert an .avi file (DivX 4 I think) to an MPEG2 file using TMPGEnc for burning on an SVCD. I haven't had any problems up to now, 'cause I've carefully read all the "how to" pages but I'm not quite sure what the problem is here. The movie is in terms of time, right? this file only runs 25 minutes, but when I try to encode it, TMPGEnc's wizard tells me that the file will be about 138% of the disk space. If I lower the bitrate (to the minimum of 1600) it still takes up around 110% or something... it still won't fit.

I'm really not sure why this is happening. This .avi file is around 220MB and is a little bigger than the 180MB avi's that I've succesfully converted, but they are all 25 minute episodes so I can't figure out what's different in this case.

Help~!

[bugster]

My guess would be the avi contains VBR audio. Open the file in virtualdub and if it gives you a warning about vbr audio do this:

Audio-Full processing
Audio-Compression - none (PCM)
File-save wav (movie.wav)

Now use this wav file as the audio source when encoding.

Hope this helps