making vcds smaller

[Rizzo2000]

how do u make a vcd smaller or at least shrink in a little

[BJ_M]

well you could chop some off some of it or re-encode it at a lower bit rate

[crack_man]

Use this guide Rizzo to lower the bitrate on your movie which will make the size smaller and fit in one CD:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/84759.php

[tearex]

The VCD bitrate for both Video&Audio&Padding combined is FIXED at 1411200 bps. Any lower bitrate will make an XVCD, i.e. a non-compliant some-sort-of-VCD that will work in some players but not in others. The capacity of standard VCD is limited to about 40 seconds less than the audio capacity of the CD.

Also TMPGenc will not give you truly VCD compliant MPEG-1 data with the VCD presets. Use 1-4-2 settings & no scene change detection in GOP options, and mux your Audio and Video with VCDMUX from the Philips VCD 2.0 toolkit (now freeware) if you want to be on the safe side.

[crack_man]

The VCD bitrate for both Video&Audio&Padding combined is FIXED at 1411200 bps. Any lower bitrate will make an XVCD, i.e. a non-compliant some-sort-of-VCD that will work in some players but not in others. The capacity of standard VCD is limited to about 40 seconds less than the audio capacity of the CD.

Also TMPGenc will not give you truly VCD compliant MPEG-1 data with the VCD presets. Use 1-4-2 settings & no scene change detection in GOP options, and mux your Audio and Video with VCDMUX from the Philips VCD 2.0 toolkit (now freeware) if you want to be on the safe side.

It just get fucked up if you use the new version of TMPGEnc (v2.59).
Use the old one instead (v2.58 ) from here:
http://www.downseek.com/download/21222.asp