Ability To Compress A Large MPG To Single CD

[CurtisMinBC]

Hello there,

I'm wondering if their is a way I can compress a VCD MPG I have created with my tv tuner card which is bigger than 700MB and have it to fit on a single CDRW as I do not own a DVD burner yet.

RGDS

Curtis

[gadgetguy]

It would be better to split the file over more than one CD than to compress it futher than the VCD spec.

[CurtisMinBC]

TY, for your input I will await and try out some software options if they're available and see if I can put up with the quality loss etc. Thanks for your input though.

[steveryan]

How much bigger than 700mb is it?

[CurtisMinBC]

Well, I recorded a half an hour show and it took up 340MB so this movie I am recording which is two hours will be four times the size so let's say 1.5GB max?

[unclebud]

If you burn as a VCD you can get an 825mb file on an 80 minute CD. Try Nero or Roxio and not just burn as a data file.
UB

[unclebud]

Some capture software use templates that can be set to split the file at a certain size or time.
WinDVR does this. Other's may do it also.

I use MMC (ATI AIW) and it does not.
UB

[CurtisMinBC]

TY for your input however I am hoping to see what the quality is if I can fit the entire two hour movie onto a single CD without splitting it.

[freebird73717]

You can use rejig to transcode the elementary video stream down to the size you need. Just keep in mind that you will have to multiplex the audio back in so leave room for that. Your video quality will more than likely suffer greatly though....

[CurtisMinBC]

freebird73717,

Thanks for your input but unfortunately I'm a newbie and I really don't understand what you mean.

Is their any guides that can teach me how to do this or?

RGDS

[freebird73717]

https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=805#805

[steveryan]

You will lose a lot of quality from what is probably already a low quality source. Why don't you split it in the middle using MPEG-VCR and use two discs?

[Nelson37]

Staying within the VCD specs, it will look like crap. You may find it acceptable, but I doubt it. Going below the VCD specs, it may not play, and will still look like crap, you just may not be able to see it.

Recommend a program such as BBMpeg, which will Demux (split the audio and video) and then allow you to specify a file size based split when you Remux (put the audio and video back together.

[CurtisMinBC]

Nelson37,

Thanks for the suggestion I tried BBMpeg out on a test recording and it worked great.

I do have a follow up question tho, is their anyway that I can have it so when splitting the MPG that I can make sure it does it during a commercial instead of during some important part of the movie?

TIA

[Nelson37]

Well ain't we picky?

No, not on a size-based split. TMPGenc will cut the file based on time, but the video displayed is not correct to the timeline. Use VDUB to find the correct time for the split, then enter this into TMPGenc, Merge and Cut feature.

The problem here is that you will not know the size of the pieces until after the split. You can estimate, and if encoding CBR, the estimate will be pretty accurate. But VBR is pretty necessary for CD video and this makes any estimation inaccurate.