2 hour movie on 2 disks ... How can I??

[-=^SilentAssassin^=-]

I have a 2 hour DivX movie that I want to burn to VCD so I can watch it on my DvD player. I'm not a n00b at converting on TMPGenc but I've only done small <30 min movies. How can I split the movie when the 74 mins comes up and continue converting?? Do I still use the VideoCD setting in TMPGenc?? Please tell me how to do this

[wcb4]

well, your choice of 2 ways:

1. under the advanced settings tab, select source range and then select a begin and end frame for the first part, encode then select the source starting one frame after the previous end and the end at the end of the movie and encode part 2

2. encode the whole thing in one shot the same way you would have done a <30 minute clip, the resulting mpg file will be larger than you can use. Using TMPGenc, under fiel menu, select mpeg tools, select the large mpeg and select cut/join and cut it there, making sure tht you select vcd as the output stream type

hope this helps

[aguillon]

wcb4 sums it up indeed. There would be another method which would be chopping the DIVX file (using AVIChop for instance) and then encoding the 2 parts separately.

When you use his method number 1, you can actually save the settings for each part under separate projects, then batch the 2 projects and go to bed. Wake up in the morning and you have 2 neat little MPEG files.

[-=^SilentAssassin^=-]

Should I use MPEG1 or MPEG2 for the movies?? I never could tell a difference in the two but im not sure with larger movies.

[Vejita-sama]

At the same bitrate and resolution MPEG1 looks the same as MPEG2. Most people use MPEG1 as it encodes faster. HOWEVER, if you're asking about VCD vs. SVCD (different question):

VCD - MPEG1 352x240 video=1150kbit/s & audio=224kbit/s
SVCD - MPEG2 480x480 video=2520kbit/s & audio=224kbit/s

Because SVCD calls for higher bitrate and resolution, it (should) produce a better encode (I say should because GIGO, if you have a crappy source [eg. DivX] with low resolution than SVCD can look worst).

[-=^SilentAssassin^=-]

Ok I get how to cut the movies now to 2 Cds. Now my problem is that after I convert they will be probably be over 650MB so how can I get around that?? It wont fit on a Cd.

[w00kiee]

video cds can hold about 740 mBs of data a bit more with over burning
a 80 min can hold about 800 mBs

video cds use the error correction area of a cd to fit more data in which helps fit more movie but means you have to take really good care of vcds.. your player will just macro-block up on errors and probably keep going.. but who wants that

if you have a 2 hour movie you should end up with 2 600 mb files anyways(vcd)

[-=^SilentAssassin^=-]

Ok another question. When I try to load up the .avi in the TMPGenc edit part it doesnt come up. It says it can only edit MPEG1 or MPEG2 files. So do I have to fully convert the movie to MPEG then edit it?? I tried AVIChop but got a "This program as encountered a problem blah blah." Any suggestions??