How many minutes can you fit on a SVCD?

[hoyboy]

I have been told you can only fit around 30mins of video onto a disk with svcd. Is this correct?.

Thanks

[vitualis]

If you use an 80min CD, then at the maxiumum bitrate, you will only fit about 40 minutes of video.

SVCD, however, is flexible with the video bitrate so if you lower your average bitrate, then you will fit more video.

Regards.

[Mr Grumpy]

I normally work to up to maybe 55 minutes per 80 min CD (using multipass VBR) and still get pretty good quality.

You can get the odd blockiness, particularly on action shots, but its more than good enough for me.

There are X(S)VCD templates that can get upto 120 minutes on a CD (KWAGs templates) which do get some good reviews (but I haven't personally tried one yet.

[Rond66]

Bitrate calculators computes video bitrate from given movie length.
https://www.videohelp.com/tools

https://www.videohelp.com/svcd

SVCD stands for "Super VideoCD". A SVCD is very similiar to a VCD, it has the capacity to hold about 35-60 minutes on 74/80 min CDs of very good quality full-motion video along with up to 2 stereo audio tracks and also 4 selectable subtitles. A SVCD can be played on many standalone DVD Players and of course on all computers with a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive with the help of a software based decoder / player. It is also possible to use menus and chapters, similiar to DVDs, on a SVCD and also simple photo album/slide shows with background audio. The quality of a SVCD is much better than a VCD, especially much more sharpen picture than a VCD because of the higher resolution. But the quality depends how many minutes you choose to store on a CD, less minutes/CD generally means higher quality.

[Gazorgan]

I usually go with 45-50 minutes for a CDR. That is, I encode for 2 CDR's at 90-100 minutes. Over that, or an action movie, I go with 3 CDR's to about 120-130 minutes. Over that I go with 4 disks. I've only done one 5 disk encode, and it was well over 3 hours long.

[spiderman2k1]

with the Dazzle 2 at 2600 vbr I got one hour one time. But that does not mean ever time I capture at 2600 vbr i will get a hour. When I capture TV show like Babylon 5 one episode would be around 500meg's at 2600 VBR then I would capture the one Star Trek the same way at 2600 and it would be like 650meg's ever episode if defferent some screen's take up more space. the old Star Trek as alot of color and some episode's are shot ut side on a sunday so it take's up more data in the bitrate. Where B5 is shot ina studio and alot of seen's are gray and there it not a jump it the bitrate data. So people can only give you a ball park there is no one set time for SVCD or DVD only VCD has a set time

[El_Mero_Zooter]

depends on how you edit your files but somewhere around 120 to 180mins can be stored on a cd. Also depends on how much quality you're willing to sacrifice or not...and at what rez and how dark/light motion-intensive your material is....

Go over to kvcd.net and see if it fits your methods (i.e. mpg1 modified mpg2, well sorta',,,,)

120 Minutes of video with KVCD template
http://www.kvcd.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=5

Zooter

[K2]

VBR is not a fixed result.

I typically see 40-55 minutes at 2600 max

yesterday I put 70 minutes on a 80 Min CDR at 2500 VBR
It looked good. I was surprised. Yes it was SVCD not VCD.


remember a 80 min CDR can hold a 790Meg movie if you burn in SVCD or VCD mode.

[kwag]

The question should really be: "How many minutes can you fit on a CD at SVCD resolution!"
Not "How many minutes can you fit on a SVCD?"
If you use SKVCD, you should be able to fit way over 120+ minutes on one CD, because we're already fitting ~120+ minutes at 528x480 resolution!
Take a look here: http://www.kvcd.net/city-by-the-sea.mpg
That's how the complete movie look like on one CD-R at 528x480, so at 480x480 (SVCD resolution), you'll get longer playing time with slightly reduced sharpness. If you want strict SVCD compliance, feel free to modify SKVCD template to 480x480. You'll get longer play time than most (any?) SVCD templates, with equal (or higher) quality.

-kwag