splitting a dvd rip of over 700 megs for vcd

[ron200sx]

What is the best software to split a dvd rip of over 700 megs so i can burn to vcd without getting delays in the sound and the people in the vcd are skinny? Is there anything else i need to do to the file to make it work right? thanks. Ron

[RabidDog]

so i can burn to vcd without getting delays in the sound and the people in the vcd are skinny

You'll be wanting NERoLITE or VCDsugarfree or VirtualDIET and virtualDietmod
read about aspect ratio/vcd authoring/audio video sync.

[ronnylov]

A 80 min / 700 MB VCD can hold 80 minutes of VCD video (which is around 800 MB in size, but VCD use less error correction so you can store more than on data CD).

So if you want to split your source before encoding to VCD then split it so that the playing time of each part is less then 80 minutes. It does not have anything to do with the size of your source. A 700 MB divx can be 120 min as well as 45 min depending how much it is compressed. A VCD has fixed bitrate so it will play at 1X CD-speed so you can't fit anymore than 80 minutes of VCD on a 80 min disc.

But I prefer not to split the source before encoding. I rather split the mpg after encoding. What I do is that I encode to elementary streams (m1v and mp2) in tmpgenc and then multiplex it to VCD compatible mpg with bbmpeg. There is an option in bbmpeg to split at a certain filesize so I set it to split at 795 MB during the muxing. Then I can burn each part to VCD.