After encoding over 3GB ?! Is there a way to avoid it ?!

[dEE-jAY]

Hello!
I'm an newbie concerning de/encoding and therefore I got a question. I got a DivX (1,4 GB) and wanted to encode it in order to burn it as a VCD. But after the encoding-process (with Panasonic MPEG1 Encoder 2.5) the new files were 3,2 GB big. Is this the way it should be ?! The first two files had 700 MB each before the progress, so that I can burn it on 2 CD's. Now I would need 5 Cd's to burn the movie as VCD and I don't want to change 5 Cd's while watching this movie. Is it my mistake or is this the normal way ?!
Thanks in advance!

Bet regards,
dEE-jAY

[Vejita-sama]

For a standard VCD 1min=10MB, so just do the math. A 74min CDR will hold 740MB of MPEG data and an 80min CDR will hold 800MB of MPEG data. So a 3.2GB MEPG file would 'just fit' on 4 80min CDRs.

Question: at 3.2GB that's a 320min movie? Is that right? Or do you have several eps in one big DivX file? If you lower the bitrate or try VBR you could use fewer CDRs, but this would/could/should lower the quaility.