2 hour movie on SVCD equals 4 Discs?????

[nikjensie]

So I wanna put this movie that's about 2 hrs long onto an SVCD. I used BBMPG to cut it and it turns out as 4 Discs with 3x750 MB and 1 at 125MB.... what's going on??? I've searched the net and found plenty of examples, the same movie for instance in 2 Disc versions on SVCD...
And they're about 865MB a disc. How do you put such a large file on a CD???
Definitely a newbie, and I need help.
If there's aguide on this site that I missed (Believe me, I looked), just point me in that direction and I'll be happy.
Thank you in advance.

Nik

[mckeomat]

Hi, an 80 min cd can only hold a maximum of 800mb of video (unless you overburn...but lets not get into that ). So if you want to fit more than 750mb per disc use tmpgenc's mpeg tools to cut your original 'film.mpeg' file at about 798/9mb worth of video. The 865mb per disc films you have seen were probably made using 90min CDRs (which can hold about 900mb of video), but are rare as hens teeth. Hope this is clear? If not let me know and I'll try to explain in a bit more detail

[PlaiBoi]

You should be able to fit your 120 min. movie onto 3 CDs. Thats how mine are. I just did Oceans Eleven which is 117 minutes and its about 740 MB per CD, 3 CDS.

What is your Avg. bitrate? Max bitrate? Min. bitrate?

I use 2350 Avg. 2520 Max. and 1200 Min. and get OUTSTANDING results.

[nikjensie]

So, what's OUTSTANDING results? I've made a few SVCDs so far and the video seems to not flow really well, am I doing something wrong then?
I think I'm converting from NTSC to PALs. I use TMPGEnc mainly through everything... bad idea or good idea?

Nik

[PlaiBoi]

OUTSTANDING for me means that its almost DVD quality, and thats what I get. It looks ALOT better than VHS and is close to DVD. I rip with Smart Ripper, frameserve with DVD2AVI, encode with TMPGEnc, and author with VCDEasy.

What are your bitrate settings with TMPGEnc? Do you change anything besides the bitrate?

Why are you converting from NTSC to PAL? If you live in a PAL area, why dont u just rip from the PAL dvd's?

[energy80s]

Also you can use CBR at 2496kbps and get a 2 hour film onto 3 discs as you get 40 mins per disc. This means that you can encode at twice the speed of VBR encoding.

[PlaiBoi]

Will using a CBR of 2496 get you a better quality result than using 2-pass with avg. 2350 max. 2520 min. 1200?

[mh2360]

OH MAN!!! lets not start the CBR/VBR thing again please.... Look for another (loooong!!!) thread on this issue...

[PlaiBoi]

hahaha...ok.

[energy80s]

Will using a CBR of 2496 get you a better quality result than using 2-pass with avg. 2350 max. 2520 min. 1200?

YES! The only thing that VBR will do is get you is smaller file size. It will also take twice as long to encode.