help with file size and playing time

[mysticgohan17]

ok. if a 69 minute vcd at the standard bitrates (say 3 episodes of a 23 minute TV show joined together) will end up being about 690-700 mb large, how much time can i fit for an SVCD at the standard bitrates (2520 CBR,224kbps audio) that is less than or equal to 696 MB?

[TheWolf]

My calculator told me:

Audio: 224 kBit/s
CD-Size: 700MB
Bitrate: 2506 kBit/s

Time: 40 Min

[Laddydaddy]

You can use a calculator as thewolf just did. They are available in the tools section of this website. A very easy one to use if you encode at constant bitrates is the Bearson bitrate calculator available at www.doom9.org.

[mysticgohan17]

it that what the actual file size will be or the cd type is will fit on. i've fit up to 805 mb on a "700 mb" cd before. is there a calculator that I can choose my target filesize output.

[DJRumpy]

Most of them let you specify a target size, either in minutes, media, or in actual file size. Why do you need to specify an actual size? Is this for a DivX encode? File size is somewhat irrelevant for MPEG VCD/CVD/SVCD as you already seem to realize. The length of MPEG that will fit on CD-R is determined by the average bitrate.

Just try any of them, select your target media (650MB, 700MB, 900MB, DVD-R, etc). Plugin the number of minutes and the number of discs you want to put it on, and it will give you the average bitrate to use when encoding.