Balooning XVID file size

[Hardcoreruss]

Please help. I have an xvid film it is around 700mb. When I go to convert it in TMPGENC it tells me that the projected file size for a PAL VCD is 2.8gb. Is there anyway how I can make this smaller ??.

[Craig Tucker]

Forget about the size of the xvid file what is its length. Standard VCD is 10mb/min, so a 90min film will be 900MB, a 100 min film will be 1GB etc. 2.8GB would be ok of the film was 280mins long, I don't know for sure but this seems unlikely 4hours 40mins ?.

So assuming you have not got some super long epic you are trying to encode, I would think that your xvid file has variable bitrate audio. TMPGEnc cannot handle VBR audio and misreports the output filesize, if you encoded you would almost certainly have audio sync problems.

You need to extract the audio to an uncompressed wav file and use this as your audio source in TMPGEnc.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/divxtovcd.htm#audio