fit 60min in on 80min cdr svcd?

[Joe'S]

i have to rip a movie into two cdr80, so i have decided to split it into two 60min part, which are the best settings to obtain a good svcd, with good picture quality?

[wolleric]

On a normal 80min (S)VCD you can write about 797 MB of MPEG data (which gives you 797*1024*8 kbit=6529024kbit). So you can easily calculate the maximum frame rate for your video:
bitrate=6529024/sec
where sec is the length of your movie in seconds. Now all you have to do is subtract the audio bitrate (192 or 224 or whatever you use) and you get the video stream bitrate.
By the way, it seems that after muxing with TMpegEnc the file is a bit smaller that it should be, so you might increase the bitrate by some kbits.

[poopyhead]

since you're fitting a lot of minutes per CD-R, there are couple things you can do to increase quality without increasing filesize.

1) if you can force film, do it. dvd2avi must indicate that the video type is 90+% FILM. this way, you can encode in tmpgenc as 23.976 fps + 3:2 pulldown, rather than interlaced 29.97 fps. this will decrease the number of total frames and give the remaining frames more of the bitrate, higher quality.

2) motion search accuracy should be set no lower than high quality (slow)

3) use 2 pass VBR (it has better bitrate allocation than cq vbr and gives more predicatable filesize due to its avg. bitrate setting)

[rawi82]

Use DVD2SVCD and adjust the bitrate to the dilm duration and CD-R length.
I ripped a film with 137 min on 2 SVCDs and it looks excellent because i used 4-pass encoding with CCE. Doing it this way you will get the best quality as the encoder is used to the max. Don´t use CBR!