Panasonic RV-31 compatible SVCD bitrate reduction

[griffeat]

VCDhelp posts have been very helpful in getting SVCD to play on the RV-31. Now I would like to reduce the bitrate (to say something like 1800) to fit 45 minutes or so on one CDR. When I try the multiplex trick and then used TMPGEnc tricks described elsewhere on vcdhelp to lower the bitrate of the resulting (non-standard) MPEG-1 VCD, I seem to get audio play but no video play on the Panasonic after burn with Nero. (The resulting disc plays fine in WinDVD.) Any ideas about how to successfully do bitrate reduction would be most appreciated.

[DrChumley]

VCDhelp posts have been very helpful in getting SVCD to play on the RV-31. Now I would like to reduce the bitrate (to say something like 1800) to fit 45 minutes or so on one CDR. When I try the multiplex trick and then used TMPGEnc tricks described elsewhere on vcdhelp to lower the bitrate of the resulting (non-standard) MPEG-1 VCD, I seem to get audio play but no video play on the Panasonic after burn with Nero. (The resulting disc plays fine in WinDVD.) Any ideas about how to successfully do bitrate reduction would be most appreciated.

I may be entirely off here (and if I am, I don't doubt that I will be corrected in short order) but remuxing the file as a non-standard VCD won't change the bitrate. It will only re-write the header of the file to fool the player into thinking it's playing one kind of file or another.

As far as I understand (and I've never actually done this) you can use a program called reMPG to change the bitrate of the file to get it down to size. You can find a like to it on the VCD Tools page.

DrC