MPEG file size 1 Gig?

[Evoken]

I’ve been doing this for two days and the question is probably stupid, but I can’t find an answer to it anywhere.

I am trying to encode a divx to mpeg so I can burn it to make a VCD, using TMPEGnc 2.0. I have followed the instructions on this site carefully but the mpeg file sizes are always 1 Gig? I encoded three movies of different sizes with different quality settings and they are all 1 Gig?

The only part of the instructions I cant follow is this part
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"2. Hit the button Load at the bottom right and load the
VideoCD (PAL) if the original source in 25 fps or
Video....................
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There is nothing there to load! Thought this may be the problem. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[JoeBob]

Dude, you want to load a template, and the templates are in the "TEMPLATE" directory which in turn is in the directory which you installed TMPGEnc. Once you load the template (PAL if in europe or NTSC if you're in north america) if should solve your problems.

[Evoken]

Sorry.. I got an error the first time I posted.... I posted again........ and now my msg is there twice......

[Evoken]

Thanks!!

I installed TMPGEnc from inside winzip. But the template files ware not used in the installation and were never unzipped, so I had no template folder. I’m sure it will work now.

thanks.
kel.

[Evoken]

aghh Now the file is bigger.

[n1xt3r]

how big is your avi file?

[Hollywood004738]

With a compliant VCD file, 1min=10MB. Length of .AVI, not size, is the factor.

[eyeofbeholder]

Hollywood004738 is right - lenght of the avi determines the file size. Go ahead and let it encode the whole 1 gig file. Then use TMPGEnc to split the mpg into multiple pieces. See the help on the left on how to split files using TMPGEnc. If 1min=10MB, then you should be able to fit about 70 minutes on a 700 MB cd.