Anyway to store 50min on SVCD w/o quality loss?

[yenly]

I usually do 34 min/CD to maintain the best possible quality. However, is there anyway to do a 50 min SVCD w/o suffering a loss in quality? 34 min on a CD is just too short - but I don't want to take a cut in quality. I tried to burn a VCD last night...which can take over 60 min/CD. My gosh the quality is bad.

I'm beginning to think that DVD is my next option...but the only drawback is that it will take longer time to encode and it's not easy to make a copy. I hate all of that ripping crap. A 34min clip to SVCD takes me 2 hours to - if I do a DVD (which will likely be 1.5 hour clip) how long will it take? Any ideas?

My PC is 2.2Ghz P4.

[bokkasrealm]

but the only drawback is that it will take longer time to encode and it's not easy to make a copy

Ummmmm nope. It is actually less time for me to encode a DVD than an SVCD or VCD. Reason* - The program doesnt have to compress as much information thus less time to encode.

Not easy to make a copy? hahahahahahahaha!

[honorarybrutha]

use tmpgenc and do a two-pass VBR. set the motion search to "estimate." try a small sample to see if the quality is good enough.

will take more time but quality should be okay. just batch encode while
you're sleeping.

[ZippyP.]

do a two-pass VBR. set the motion search to "estimate." .... just batch encode while you're sleeping.

That's exactly what I do. VBR is the best way to get the most minutes on a disk while preserving quality. I set the minimum bitrate to 300, max 2500 and I like to keep the average to 1700 or higher.

If you use CVD resolution (352x480) to create your SVCD's then you can lower the average bitrate even more. The lower CVD resolution doesn't need as high a bitrate to maintain quality. I find 1400 avg. is acceptable.

[sterno]

If I'm concerned about quality I usually use "high quality" instead of "motion estimation", but "high quality" is slower and in recent versions of tmpgenc the "motion estimation" quality is acceptable.

[FOO]

Doing an IVTC will buy you 20% more bitrate on
Telecined material.