avi to mpg with tmpgenc, length

[J F]

Can someone help me with my problem, i tried searching for it in the forums, but i couldn't come up with the right one.

Trying to enconde Vanilla Sky to VCD mpg
file is MPEG-1 640x352 23.976fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 48000Hz 192kbps

Whenever i go to encode, the original is 62 minutes, but the projected output is 107 minutes. I gave it a shot and that's how it came out.

If anyone has any ideas or has had this problem, could you please give me a hand?

Thanks

[banjazzer]

Trying to enconde Vanilla Sky to VCD mpg
file is MPEG-1 640x352 23.976fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 48000Hz 192kbps

The file you detail is your source file? How do you know it is CBR? Vanilla Sky is 134 minutes, so no way would it fit to a single CD at that bitrate. The figures above would give an mpeg around 1310MB, and you can fit nearly 800MB mpeg to an 80 minute CD. The only way it would fit to one CD is as an xVCD. Something is wrong with the details you provided. 8)

[J F]

Sorry, should have been more specific, that's the cd1 avi i downloaded, and when i set it as the source file in tmpgenc, that's what it tells me it is.

original file size was 712,150 kb

Summary of Properties is as follows

Image
Width - 640 pixels
Height - 352 pixels

Audio
Duration - 1:02:24
Bit Rate - 222kbps
Audio format - MPEG Layer-3

Video
Frame rate 23 frames/second
Data rate 190kbps
Video sample size - 24 bit
Video compression - DIVXMPG4 V3

does that help at all?

thanks

[banjazzer]

Encoded to VCD it will need 2 CDs. No more than 80 minutes per CD. If there is a second CD then you can join the avis and split so as to fit to 2 CDs. As I said, Vanilla Sky is 134 minutes, so you can fit the VCD to 2 CDs.

[bugster]

I have seen this problem with Tmpgenc and some avi's with variable bit rate or other strange audio. Try extracting the audio from the avi using virtualdub. Use audio->full processing mode, set to 44.1khz sampling rate, compression PCM and do file->save as wav. Use this as the audio input to TmpGenc with the avi as video, see if it encodes correctly that way.

[J F]

Thanks, I'll give that a shot.

[J F]

Thanks a lot man, that worked perfectly.