What am I doing wrong?????

[BassAngler98]

Just started getting in to this and I could use some help here, this is what I have done so far:

I have DL'ed a couple of movies off of Kazaa in DIVx form with an .avi extension. I have read many of the guides and on how to encode this to a mpeg and to burn onto a CD to make a VCD. I have been trying desperately to reduce the size of the MPEG using TMPGen so I can burn it on one CD. I have read the guide here, but still no luck. I have changed many settings and encoded it many different ways to see my results, changing bitrates, CBR or VBR, making a non-standard VCD, etc., nothing seems to reduce the size. Every setting has produced the same file size everytime. I have not separated the video and audio streams, is this the possible problem? Any help with this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Gazorgan]

There's not much room to change a VCD. You should look at the XVCD templates(over to the left under guides), or try SVCD?

Side Note: Typically the AVI --> VCD/SVCD conversion doubles the number of disks you will need. It's virtually impossible to take a 1 CD AVI movie and get a 1 CD anything. Typically it's a 2 CD VCD/SVCD. A 2 CD AVI yeilds a 3-4 CD VCD/SVCD. Non standard XVCD not withstanding, your only going to get about an hours worth onto 1 CD.