Can i put a 110min movie on 1 80 min cd?

[Kwalsh24]

I have a 110 min movie here and i realy want to encode it and burn it so that i can try it on my dvd player. I have tryed 4 or 5 times to try to get the movie down to 800 megs but each time it is about 1.07 gigs. Iv tryed downgrading the bit rating (using the bit rate calculater) and also tryed resizing the screen. Nothing seems to work! Im using the NTSC and 23.97 fps. My audio iv tryed to downgrade it down to as low as it will go 64 bit. can anyone out there help me? I realy dont want to split my movie into half!

[homerpez]

Are you using 2-Pass VBR encoding, or something else? (HINT: doing anything but CBR or 2-pass VBR will result in an unpredictable file size)

[wildcatfan]

homerpez....that would depend on the encoder you use....I personally use LSX 3.5 and with single pass vbr it keeps the file size very close to the expected one. Now if you use TMPGenc like 98% of the people here I agree with you. By the way LSX 3.5 is WAAAAAAAY better than 3.0......

Michael

[Goldenaxe4000]

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[hitechjunkie]

110 minute movie in a 800mb mpeg should be real do-able. using tmpgenc, with a NTSC rez of 352x240, 23.97fps, i would keep the 44.1khz, 64kbps audio but redo the video only using CQ_VBR 0-900, then re-multiplex.

the video bitrate settings that have worked for me with TMPGEnc using CQ_VBR, with an audio of 44.1khz, 64kbps stereo, NTSC rez of 352x240, 29.97fps, out to an MPEG-1 burned to 80min media has been:

0-1200 = 90 minutes
0-1100 = 100 minutes
0-1000 = 110 minutes
0-900 = 120 minutes
0-800 = 130 minutes

[hitechjunkie]

just wanted to add that these encoding settings seem to work best with material that winds up letterboxed on the resultant XVCD. clipping the top/bottom black bars from the source and letting TMPGEnc add the black bars on the final MPEG seems to allow for more movie minutes per MB (TMPGEnc does not have to allocate those precious bits to the black bars)...

[Kwalsh24]

hitechjunkie: what did you mean buy this?

the video only using CQ_VBR 0-900, then re-multiplex.