AVI to Compressed VCD Format !!

[dre@ms]

Hello all..

This is my first post.. I have many DVD-Rips in AVI Format. All these movies r abt 700 - 750 MB.

I want these videos to b converted to VCD's so it can b played using any VideoCD Player.

First i tried Nero and it does the job but the output is very poor. So read some guides in our site and d/l both TMPGEnc and VirtualDub.

Then using these i got the output with the same quality of the original. But now the prob is since some files are above 700 MB i cant burn them in a single CD.

So i need to compress those files and burn them in Single CD and make them to play in my SONY VideoCD Player.

How to compress.. Pls help.

[celtic_druid]

VCD = 10MB/min and you can fit 800MB on an 80min CDR. Still that means that if it is longer than 80mins, it won't fit on a single 80min CDR. You could make it fit, but it wouldn't be VCD anymore.

Size = bitrate * length. The length is pretty much fixed, so lowering the bitrate is the only option. Could go from say using 128k audio instead of 224 to KVCD notch matrix with low bitrate VBR video or whatever. Like I said though, it won't be VCD anymore so your Sony might not play it.

[guns1inger]

You can't. If you have encoded them correctly to VCD compliant files, and they are too long, then all you can do is cut them into two parts and make two disks. You could try looking for larger disks - 800mb blanks, perhaps, but these might not be recognised by your player. Basically, VCD is very limited in it's scope.

Your other choice would be to look at non-complaint or out-of-scope formats, such as kvcd, which aim to fit longer running times into the same space. This will require you to re-encode your AVIs again, and the quality difference, while subjective, to me is obvious.

You do have one other avenue open to you. You could put these VCD compliant files onto a DVD. This assumes you aren't going VCD because you only have a CD burnder. Use something like TDA, which will transcode the audio to 48k (for DVD complaince) and put the video down untouched. You can probably fit 5 - 6 films to a disk this way.

/edit - Sorry, just notice these are for a VideoCD Player, so scratch the last suggestion. You are back to split disks.

[dre@ms]

Ohh.. my god so thr r no options to compress a file isnt' it.. thnx all..

any other sugg r also welcum..

[sanjayk]

Your best option is to convert your AVIs to VCD compliant MPEG-1 using TMPGEnc and burn them as VCDs using Nero or any other burning app. Split your movies in two or more CDs as required.

[MistaED]

Get The FilmMachine. Excellent packaged software that allows to to convert avi to either vcd, svcd, or dvd. It comes packaged with 2 encoders and also allows you the option of using outside encoders like CCE or Canopus Procoder. Best of all, it's freeware.