Burning VCD

[hbkhhh69]

Okay, I have a problem. I can not burn an MPEG1 as VCD. The length of the video is 77 minutes and the size is about 1.54gb. Why so big? Well, its such great quality. There is one problem. When I open the file up with Nero to burn a VCD, Nero reads the file as 154 minutes and doesn't use up minutes to burn. On the scale on the bottom, it shows MB, not minutes. I need a really OLD nero to do that, burns torwards minutes. I don't know, maybe this is only for my computer. Anyways, I need to burn this 77 minute MPEG1 on an 80 minute disc. And MB is being used up. I want to use up minutes. Please, someone, tell me what to do.

[Heflink]

obviosly you arent going to be fitting 1.54gigs on a 80 minute disk, the mpeg will only fit to that length if it's a standard VCD 1150kbps 352*240. You need to either split the file or lower the bitrate.

[Craig Tucker]

The file you have is not VCD compliant, bitrate for VCD is 1150kbps, a 77 min movie should be approx 770MB. How did you encode this file.

[hbkhhh69]

What do you mean my converted Sinbad - Legend Of The Seven Seas, is not a VCD Compliant? Do you mean that the settings of the MPEG do not fit the description of a VCD Compliant? Well it has the same exact bitrate as the SVCD, it is like 2520kbps I believe. I converted it with TMPEGEnc. That's the program I used, but I can not share my method/guide. The reason for this is because the way I did this, you people probably won't believe.

[j1d10t]

If it has the same bitrate as an SVCD, then that right there says that the file is not a standard compliant VCD, it's an XVCD.

[Conquest10]

why don't you share your method/guide and enlighten us?

[hbkhhh69]

It is not an XVCD, if it was, then it would say that in the results of my SCAN by VCDEasy. And I won't share it cause people like j1d10t are really unappriciative.

[Conquest10]

it is an xvcd. the size of the file for the bitrate does not sound wrong. you have to split the file. or reencode it as a compliant vcd.

[hbkhhh69]

i would split but my brother is an a$$ about cdr's and thinks its a waste cause it takes up 3 cds. well both of my cd-rw's are f'ed now and i need to get some more. i wonder if they make 700mb cd-rw's. how much do they usually cost?

[vitualis]

You have not made a VCD compliant MPEG. Obviously the bitrate is too high. The fact that VCDEasy doesn't complain doesn't mean anything. I could probably mux a word document in such a way that VCDEasy think's it is compliant too. I assume you muxed your MPEG with TMPGEnc using the MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard) option (or encoded it with TMPGEnc in that way) or something similar. This is not particularly new or secretative.

In any case, your MPEG is obviously not going to fit onto one disc. You shouldn't be particularly surprised as you use a high bitrate.

filesize = length (time) x bitrate

If you double the bitrate, then obviously your filesize is going to be doubled as well.

If you want to fit it on one disc, then you will have to re-encode your MPEG at a more logical bitrate.

Otherwise, the only option is to split the MPEG into several parts and burn them on multiple discs.

Regards.

[Craig Tucker]

Well it has the same exact bitrate as the SVCD, it is like 2520kbps I believe.

This is not VCD compliant VCD is 1150kbps anything else will be xvcd. You have used the max SVCD bitrate.

[hbkhhh69]

Okay, thanks for all your help guys. I have decided that I will go buy CD-RW's so that my brother won't be an ass about it. And by the way, I didn't mux.