100 min movie, what settings?

[kimpan]

I am goin to encode a 100 min movie(me,myself and ireene)
I have tryed allot of settings in tmpgenc but the file is getting too big. What settings is good for 100 min movie?
I also use dvd2avi and toolame.
please help me, the file should be at least 750 mb?

[kimpan]

on 2cds I should add

[kimpan]

what bitrate is good for xvcd? when bitrate is 1150 it gets 830mb large

[Truman]

Use a Bitrate calculator.
If you want to fit a 100min movie on 2 80min CDs, you are aiming for 1600MB and the average bitrate (only multipass) or constant bitrate can set up to 1965 kbps / audio bitrate 224kbps.
I'm a little confused, 100min @1150 kbps=830MB??

[kimpan]

yes, I had bitrate at 1150 and the first cd was up at 830mb, why is that?
I now tryed with 1000 bitrate and it was 600mb...
I have no clue what to do, please help

[Vejita-sama]

Sorry the below is so long.

Ok, here's how it works. The size (MB) of your souce doesn't matter. Only the runtime, because your MPEG will be encoded at X-kbit/s. The VCD standard calls for video=1150kbit/s and audio=224kbit/s. This results in 1min=10MB.

If you change these settings you'll be making an xVCD. Let me also add that from a DVD source you should chnage the resolution from the VCD standard of 352x240 to either 352x480, or 480x480. To up the video bitrate you can lower the audio bitrate to 128kbit/s if you want.
You might also want to use MPEG2 (xSVCD) if your DVD player supports it (more on that latter)

I'm going to assume that you have already ripped the DVD, run DVD2AVI to generate a D2V and wav file.

1) Run a bitrate calculator. Look to the left under tools, the vcdhelp.com one is nice (select SVCD/xVCD it doesn't matter it's the kbit/s not MPEG1 or MPEG2 that matters).
Enter all you info, movie length, size/# of CDRs, audio bitrate, etc.

2) Run TMPGenc. Load the standard VCD (or SVCD) template. Then load the unlock template (should be in ../templates/extras) this will unlock all the greyed out parts of the standard template.

Click on settings. Set motion search to high (highest is overkill, just uses more time), change the resolution to 352x480 or 480x480, then click on encode.

You have two choices either CBR (constant bitrate) or 2pass VBR (Variable bitrate). CBR uses the same bitrate for the whole movie. 2pass VBR will make two passes (yes this will double the encode time) the first is a CBR pass, the second will up the bitrate for high motion scences and lower it for low motion scences. This produces a MUCH better MPEG, but is slower.

For CBR just enter the number from the calculator, for 2pass VBR: max=DVD players max bitrate, ave=calculator#, min=300-500 less than ave.

Click on the audio tab, and if you used a lower bitrate then 224kbit/s enter it.

Click on advance and choose 4:3 525line NTSC, center custom aspect ratio, and enter 480x480/352x480.

If you are putting your x(S)VCD on more than one disc. Double click on source range. Set the start frame at the beginning of the movie, and move the cursur to the the desired end frame (2 CDs 1/2 the movie, 3 CDs 1/3 of the movie, etc).

Choose File | save project. Then go back to source range and select the rest of the movie. Make sure to give the output file a different name, and save that project.

Then choose File | batch encode. Add your projects and hit run.

If you're a complete newbie (and have a P3/P4 or Althon/Tbird) you might want to try DVD2SVCD, DVDx, etc. I like DVD2SVCD. You can d/load the newest software bundle at:

http://dvd2svcd.doom9.net

The guide for the program thou is at http://www.doom9.org under 'the guides' read it and d/load CCE 2.5sp demo from there as well.

DVD2SVCD is a frontend loader that runs:

vStrip, DVD2AVI, Azid, tooLame, CCE, pulldown, bbMPEG, VCDImager

So just put in your DVD, choose your setting and you'll get an image file to burn. I normally turn off create image and use TSCV to add chapters, menus, etc.

The CCE 2.5sp demo at http://www.doom9.org will place a watermark/logo in the bottom right of your encoded MPEG, but I hear that there's a crack to get rid of this