Can I REALLY fit 740 MB on a 74 minute Data CD?? Why won't

[Boomer7299]

Hello

newbie here


I was checking out the "hot to author a VCD with Nero"

At the top it says:

"You can fit 740 MB on a 74 min CD and 800 MB on a 80 min CD on a VCD!"


Well, I have a AVI file (it might be Divx, but I am not sure)

It is approx 699 MB

Nero 5.5 has burned AVI's for me twice onto a VCD format

Every time I try to use Nero with this particular file, it just freezes up on me

I am using

system:
Dell Pentium 3 450 Mhz
384 MB RAM
TDK 12x10x32 CD-RW

medium:
Memorex 4x 650 MB/74 min CR-RW

What am I doing wrong here?

If that message was true about fititng 740MB onto a 74min CD-R then I should be ok, right?

I tried using TMPGE to convert the file to MPEG1 (I think it converts it to mpge1) but the output seemed pretty low quality (lots of black spots noticeable) and the whole process was estimated to take about 4 hours!


Help me out!

Cheers all!



















<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Boomer7299 on 2002-01-16 19:41:11 ]</font>

[GwenA]

Check your CDRS again.
650 mb - 74 minutes
700mb - 80 minutes

Here is a link to some 900 mb - 90 min. cdrs. I havent tried them yet though.

http://www.medeainternational.com/info/90min.htm

[vitualis]

You can fit approx. 740MB and 800MB of MPEG-1 video onto a 74min/650MB CD and 80min/700MB CD respectively.

This is as the video tracks are burnt in MODE2 Form2 sectors which don't include the ECC (error correction codes) for data on normal CD-ROMs.

Nero doesn't burn AVI files of any sort as VCDs -- rather, it converts the AVI files to VCD compatible MPEG-1 first. If you need to take this step, TMPGEnc is highly recommended as it is simply a superior MPEG-1 encoder.

If you ARE NOT converting your AVI files to MPEG-1, then you haven't been making VCDs. AVI files on a CD-ROM are NOT VCDs.

Then the user data capacity for CD-ROMs is 650MB and 700MB for 74 and 80 minute media.

Regards.

[vitualis]

Do NOT post the same question in multiple forums!!

https://www.videohelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=74853&forum=3

Regards.