mpg is to big?

[msson]

i have my dvd ripped into the 5 different .vob files with the .ifo file, i think that is all ok, but when i put them all into .mpg format the file size is still enormous like 5 gigs. like it would take 7 cds to put this one movie onto cds and it's just a short movie. basically my .mpg file is just to big so i figure i'm doing something wrong... anything you guys would have to say would probably help me out a bunch! thank you

[Vejita-sama]

Ok, I'm going to assume that the 5 VOB files were generated when you ripped the DVD.

You didn't say if you were making a x(S)VCD but I'm going to assume VCD and go from there. Basically the VCD standard calls for video at 1150kbit/s. This means 1min = 10MB. You can do the math from there:

(movie length in min) * 10MB = MPEG size in MB

Now did you actually encode the VOBs to MPEG??? Because the ripped VOBs should be ~4.7-6GB, but given the ave movie lenght of 120min the MPEG should be ~1.2GB, a 5GB VCD/MPEG1 would mean a 500min movie

Take a look at the guides to the left under 'DVD Rip' because at first glance it sounds like you missed a few steps. For the record you didn't just rename the VOB files to *.mpg right...