Divx Avi to VCD

[xobituaryx]

Hi, I have a bunch of 699 mb divx avi files of movies on my computer and I was wondering....how I can get them onto a single 700mb cd-r as a vcd? Thanks.

[yoda313]

Hello,

check the guides for "divx to vcd". You'll find a ton of tips and tricks.

TMPGENC is a great tool for it. It has a 30 day trial for mpeg2 output but you can use it to make as many vcds as you want forever

Kevin

[jimmalenko]

http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimmalenko/TMPGEnc1CD.htm might help.

[boing]

Hi, I have a bunch of 699 mb divx avi files of movies on my computer and I was wondering....how I can get them onto a single 700mb cd-r as a vcd? Thanks.

From my experience if the avi is high quality to begin with unless you are prepared to sacrifice some (read quite a lot) of quality then you wont be able to fit them on one CD

If you were going to try it you would have to go for a SVCD with a bitrate of about 800kbs which (if the original file was high quality) will result in noticable degrading of picture quality

You could try a KVCD/KSVCD and see if that helps (probably wont help to much but every little helps I suppose)


If any of the vastly more experienced [than I] members here can suggest anything then I too would also like to hear it LOL

[tigerman8u]

If you have alot of .avi movies this is what I did. I went to Wal-mart and spent $70 for the Philips dvp642 and it plays everything so far. So I got another one for my daughter. Both work great so far. Saved me alot of time re-encoding and preserved the original quality.

[jimmalenko]

If you were going to try it you would have to go for a SVCD with a bitrate of about 800kbs which (if the original file was high quality) will result in noticable degrading of picture quality.

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If any of the vastly more experienced [than I] members here can suggest anything then I too would also like to hear it LOL

XVCD using the guide I linked to

[Stuporman]

http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimmalenko/TMPGEnc1CD.htm might help.

I used that method and for some reason the file size doesn't change whatsoever. Its frustrating me, I can't figure out why its doing that. I followed the guide exactly.

[jimmalenko]

http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimmalenko/TMPGEnc1CD.htm might help.

I used that method and for some reason the file size doesn't change whatsoever. Its frustrating me, I can't figure out why its doing that. I followed the guide exactly.

That's the point of that guide, my man - convert something to VCD, and make it so that it takes up the entire CD.

[Stuporman]

http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimmalenko/TMPGEnc1CD.htm might help.

I used that method and for some reason the file size doesn't change whatsoever. Its frustrating me, I can't figure out why its doing that. I followed the guide exactly.

That's the point of that guide, my man - convert something to VCD, and make it so that it takes up the entire CD.

Yeah I know but it doesnt shrink at all. I tried to shrink a 1 gig file to 700mb and it still comes out 1 gig. I was just now reading that my problem might just be a bug in my version of TMPGENC (2.59). I have 2.58 also so I'm trying that right now.

[jimmalenko]

Make sure that on the system tab for system stream you select MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard).

[Stuporman]

Make sure that on the system tab for system stream you select MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard).

Yeah I did that.
I'm doing a test encode, I'm encoding a 200mb files to 100mb and apprently its working, I guess the problem was that version of tmpenc. I can tell its working because the percentage im at is the same as the current outputted filesize. Thanks for the help everyone.

[boing]

http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimmalenko/TMPGEnc1CD.htm might help.

This is great , just encoding my problem avis from the other day