bitrate question

[cujo187]

This might be a dumb question.I'm trying to rip a movie into a svcd. Now the movie I'm trying to rip is a 2hr 3min movie. Now I used FITCD to get the bitrate with 224 audio which is 1553 avg 1149 min 2450 max for 2CD 80min. My question is I dont want to rip this to 2CDS cause the bitrate is way to low, also I dont want to put this movie on 3cds (2442avg). Is there a way to get a better bitrate than 1553 so I could fit it on 2cds? Like to get it around 1700 or more.

[gmatov]

What's it say if you go to 300 minimum, and 192 audio, and up your average? It should fit to 2 CDs at a higher average.
2 hours plus is a good bit for 2 CDs, the Q has to suffer, the general concensus is 35-40 minutes per disk.

[poopyhead]

1) i would suggest you to split onto 3 CD-Rs.... higher bitrate = higher quality video.....

2) if you really want to split into only 2 CD-Rs, then do as gmatov sez and lower your audio bitrate to 192 kbit/s...but no lower. then, you will need to cut out the end credits. that will save you 5 min. of video and audio. also, multi-pass VBR is a must. if you have CCE, then tha'tll be great cuz you can do 4 - 5 pass VBR and the quality will look pretty decent. however, you prolly won't be able to use an avg. bitrate higher than 1.6 mbit/s.

so best bet is to stick with 3 CD-Rs....video quality will be much, much better.

as long as you don't exceed 2778 kbit/s total SVCD bitrate (video + audio), then you are still within SVCD standard.