VCDImager padding stream

[mats.hogberg]

I have this AVI, that I encode to VCD compliant (OK, I raised the video bitrate to 1500) MPEG stream with TMPGEnc. When I run it thru VCDEasy, VCDImager insists in padding the stream, resulting in an image about 100 MB bigger than intended - which of course wont fit on the CD, as I calculated this bitrate to fill an 80 min CD to the brim.
As I encode at a high bitrate, a workaround would be to lower the bitrate to allow for the padding, but I'm not very prone to fall back on workarounds.
In short - why is VCDImager padding the MPEG, and what can I do to avoid it?
The VCDImager manual says:

Furthermore the mpeg files should be aligned to 2324 byte mpeg packet boundaries. If they aren't GNU VCDImager will try to align them on the fly while issuing a warning that padding was needed.

OK, but then, why has TMPGEnc, which never has given me any problems, failed in aligning those packets this time?

Ideas, anyone?
/Mats

[sterno]

Try demuxing the audio and video and remux them as VCD.

[W_Eagle]

Hello pal,

What 'system string setting' do you use in TMPGEnc?

Take care

[mats.hogberg]

Oh, I think I took too much for granted. I just went for a mpeg1 system stream, video 352*288 at 1500 kbps, 48000 Hz 224kbps audio, and thought that would be enough. But obviously there's more to making an MPEG that can be used for making an XVCD...

/Mats

[W_Eagle]

Hello pal,

Oh, I think I took too much for granted.
I just went for a mpeg1 system stream ... /Mats

You didn't follow my quaestion - in TMPGEnc there are 4 different MPEG-1 streams - which one of them did you use?

Take care

[mats.hogberg]

in TMPGEnc there are 4 different MPEG-1 streams - which one of them did you use?

It seems I went for "MPEG-1 System (Automatic)" - Of course I should have used "MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard)". Silly me - would have saved me a lot of headache and time!