TMPGEnc reads weird file length

[der_mac]

Hi specialists

Relatively new to VCD converting, I encountered a weird problem with
TMPGEnc today:

I tried to convert an AVI of @720MB to VCD/S-VCD but T reports an estimated file length of 1.9GB(!) I tried it both ways, manual configuration and via the wizard, by using the tutorials found here - same result.

GSPOT didn't find any errors or missing codec (nimo build8 installed).

Any suggestions?
Thank u very much in advance

Michael
Cologne/Germany

[crack_man]

Which version of TMPGEnc do you have?

[der_mac]

Oh, sorry...

It's 2.5 (V 2.59.47.155; Core 1.92.142)

[Craig Tucker]

The size of the AVI is irrelevant, what matters is the length of the video. For VCD 1 minute = 10mb. So for a 1.9GB VCD you are looking at a video length of approx 190min or 3 hours 10 min. Does this sound right ?

[crack_man]

That´s happen to me too but I solve that problem by open up the movie in Virtual Dub,then save the audio as an uncompressed wave.
After that just load up the movie in TMPGEnc in video source and select the uncompressed wave(Which is very huge)as audio source.
Hope that helps.

[der_mac]

@Craig
please correct me if I'm wrong...
I understand, that the VCD target will be bigger than the original AVI (GSPOT recognise it as a div3), but 3 times sounds weird to me. The movie has an entire length of approx. 3.5 hours devided in two parts of ca. 720MB.
That would mean I need 3 CDR-80 to watch the first 1:20h of the movie!?

@crack
I'll try to extract the audio ...

[Craig Tucker]

@Craig
please correct me if I'm wrong...
I understand, that the VCD target will be bigger than the original AVI (GSPOT recognise it as a div3), but 3 times sounds weird to me. The movie has an entire length of approx. 3.5 hours devided in two parts of ca. 720MB.
That would mean I need 3 CDR-80 to watch the first 1:20h of the movie!?

With VCD 1 hour 20 mins will fit on 1 80 min disc. if you are getting 1.9GB for a 1 hour 45 min video then something is not right. The audio is probrably encoded with a variable bitrate, saving it as an uncompressed wav file and using that as the audio source in TMPGEnc should solve your problem as crack_man suggested. TMPGEnc cannot handle VBR audio and misreports the length of the video.

If the movie is 3.5 hours long (210 minutes) converted to VCD this will be 2.1GB for the entire movie. You will have to split it to fit onto 3 discs.

[der_mac]

You guys are great !!

I got it! It was my fault, to ignore the VBR problems of TEMPGEnc because I didn't exactly know what this means, lol

I extract the audio layer and everything works fine now

Thanks a lot