Anyway to make the output file smaller in Virtual Dub?

[Witch_King]

Hi there,


I am following Adam Poole's guide to make motion clips for my SVCD.

I am attempting to produce a moving main-menu that runs for a total of 0:09:00.
I use 'full processing mode' for both audio and video - in Virtual Dub.
However, the result is an avi file that is approximately 3-4 Gigs!
And next when I encode it with TmpgENC (strictly following instructions) the result is an mpg file that is 120+ Mb's!

Surely there are some options that you can change on Virtual Dub to decrease the size of the final output file?
Unless I'm mistaken, 123mb for a 9min main menu seems a bit excessive?

Any hints or advice would be greatly appreciated.


- W.K.

[CogoSWSDS]

Actually 123MB for a 9-min clip doesn't seem all that excessive to me... Standard VCD is approximately 10meg/min; Standard SVCD is approximately 20meg/min; so a 9-minute menu should be about 180meg, if encoded to standard SVCD bitrate.

HTH,
CogoSWSDS

[housepig]

make sure that you select some sort of compression in Virtualdub, the default setting is "uncompressed"

and actually, 9 minutes for 120MB sounds about right - a svcd tops out around 1 hour per disc, doesn't it?