79 minutes on an 80 minute CD

[wilsd004]

Will this work I have Dude Where's My Car which goes for an hour and 19 mins and about 40 secs will it fit on an 80 minute CD?

[Truman]

yes, if you encode to video 1150 + audio 224 kbps and burn as VCD.

[marvel2020]

Yep it will ok,

Just covert it as a Standard VCD and burn it to an 80min cd.

[hitechjunkie]

if your standalone can handle variable bitrate XVCDs, a video bitrate setting of CQ_VBR 0-1200 will get you a nicer looking movie.

[sean madison]

i disagree with you there about the CQ_VBR.
This is ShiZZZoN and i am still doing tests on
CQ-VBR. if he sets it to 0-1200, the max being 1200, it will degrade the vid quality when low motion scenes are being played. This is only used for saving file sizes and i just found out how i might be able to encode a 2 hr movie at 1500+ on 1 cd so until i test this(encode method is still CBR), just keep using the regular methods of encoding

[hitechjunkie]

my experience has been that a fixed CBR 1150 VCD tends to exhibit more blockiness than a variable CQ_VBR 0-1200 XVCD because of the way tmpgenc (v12a) 'throttles' video bitrate allocation, with peaks slightly above the 1200kbps maximum for the more demanding scenes.

[ktnwin]

For me, XVCD with VBR (CQ 80) gives much better quality than CBR at 1150. I have done standard VCD for a while, then SVCD (better quality, but sometimes there are still blockiness) and finally settled on XVCD , CQ 80, VBR (bit rate depends on how much I want to fit on one CD-R). Good picture quality, smooth motion and no blockiness.

[Vejita-sama]

For the best results here's what you do:

1) Run a bitrate calculator (look to the left under tools, the vcdhelp.com won is good) choose SVCD/xVCD it doesn't matter. Enter all your info and you'll get a bitrate for you video to fit everything. Let me add you might want to lower the audio from 224kbit/s to 128kbit/s (esp if this is a DVD rip) to keep the video bitrate as high as possible.'

2) Run TMPGenc, and choose to encode w/ 2pass VBR (yes this will double the encode time). For max=DVD players max, ave=calculator number, min=(300-500 less than ave).

Set motion search to high, and turn off detected scence
changes.

Change the resolution to either 352x480 or 480x480 (again if this is a DVD rip you've got to do this for best results).

3) Encode

For the 'bestest' results, use CCE at 3pass VBR (ie. 4 passes) MPEG2. That sounds bad but on my Tbird 1.2Ghz 4passes of CCE takes is just as fast as 2passes in TMPGenc.

For DVD rips I've been able to make near DVD quaility MPEG2 streams. But I keep the video bitrate at 1600~2200kbit/s.

[Truman]

Vejita-sama is right.
For XVCD, VBR 2pass is the way to go. But @ an avg 1150 bitrate I would stay with 352x240, because at that low bitrate TMPG's mpeg might be blocky, if you select 352(480)x480 resolution.
If you decide to fit it on 2 CDs, you can select 480x480 @ CRB2500 and you'll get this "near DVD quality" too.