Using FitCD Having Problems with final size

[R1Cohen]

Being a newbie to this................

I've tried to use Fitcd taking 84 minutes of avi and trying to convert to Mpeg-2 to fit on a 80 minute CD. Every file is too large.

For example 84 minutes in, 352x288 128K audio, changed to 320x208x128 audio with a bitrate of CBR 1047 gives me a 840 Meg file.

I'm obviously missing something.

[Vejita-sama]

Yes, something is wrong??? First, the resolution has NO affect on the size of the final encoded MPEG. The size is based on the video/audio bitrate and the length on the source. This is true for MPEG1 or MPEG2 (doesn't matter, it's just kbit/s).

If you're using video=1047 & audio=128k for an 84min source that works out to a final size of 740MB. What program are you using to encode, how are you entering the settings to make you xSVCD, what's your source (you say AVI).