120min VCD/SVCD

[supreme_commander]

Hey
i keep hearing around that people can fit 120mins on a vcd of svcd. I have tried some and they never seem to work. Is there anyone out there who knows how to do this and that it works.

Thanks

[Laddydaddy]

Go to https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=84759. See if that helps.

[adam]

The size of your movie is simply a product of your bitrate. Simply get yourself a bitrate calculator from the tools section and determine what bitrate to use to fit x amount of movie onto x amount of disks. For instance, you can fit 120 mins of content on 1 80 min disk using the following settings:

Audio=128kbits Video=786kbits
Audio=192kbits Video=722kbits
Audio=224kbits Video=689kbits

Don't expect very good quality at these bitrates though. The quality will be far worse than VHS.

[Bud]

You may want to try the KVCD system. Go to his site www.kvcd.net and take a look. I have had very good success with them in putting up to 120 min on a 80 Min CD in the 528x480 mode. The method I use is from a DVD. First DVDDecrypter (Movie Only) DVD2AVI version 1.76 only, Headac3 to convert the audio to a 112 Bit rate MP2 file. Then a program called Moviestacker (Free) that will create a .avs file with various filters. Then a program they call TOK, this program will automate the complete process with TMPGEnc. The end result will be a MPEG-1 file in 528x480 that will fit on the standand 80 Min CD and can be played back on many of the standard players. I would only suggest you try. All the software you need in on the site and is free.

Hope this helps

Bud

[kwag]

@supreme_commander ( and all! )

Go to the main KVCD portal at www.kvcd.net and look on the right panel under "Articles".
There you'll see "KVCD From scratch - A Users guide v1.1."
The guide was updated yesterday, and it will show you all the KVCD procedures and methods to make very high quality (120+ minutes) movies on a single CD-R.

-kwag

[Betamax]

If you had a burner which can burn disks of 90minutes, it would be possible to burn a VCD of max 128minutes (unless you create a non-standard vcd, using different bitrates).
If you cannot burn 90' cd's, then you can burn max. 118' onto 80' cd's (or a bit more using non-standard bitrates).

For SVCD, you'll get a very crappy result if you try to fit as most as possible onto 1 cd. While you're free to pick a bitrate for svcd, the lower you get under 1900kbps, the worser the quality will be.
Usually, I still get 'accepteble' quality if I burn max. 60' onto 1 90' cd (minimum around 1700kbps, using 2-pass VBR).