Te good news is, ffmpeg at elast seems to be working.

I spent the weekend trying to convert a 700 MB avi file to mpg1 to make a VCD. I used the ffmpeg quikc presets for vcd, the problem is I get a resulting mpg file that won't fit on a VCD. So, I tried to have ffmpeg split it into two parts, or tried altering the bit rate to get a smaller file. I tried using the bitrate calculator, but I always got a file size too large.

With one set of settings I tried, I got a .m1v file and an mp2, that were 550 and 150 MB respectively. When I muxed them together they were over 800 MB.

Could someone please run through the settings to make a vcd using mpg1 ?

thanks