MPEG-2 MPEG-1

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Hello everyone
I have a DVD that I converted so easily using TMPGEnc, the file is about 3.5GB MPEG-2 format.

How can I convert from MPEG-2 to MPEG-1?

I hope it can enable me to change the file size from 3.5GB to at least 1450MB.

[Tommyknocker]

The file can be adjusted by changing the bit rate. What do you want to do with a smaller file? I mean, you give up quality going from MPEG-2 to MPEG-1.

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I need to put them in two or three CDs, I am willing to run them on a VCD player, not on computer.

[Tommyknocker]

Try looking in the Convert section at left. There are som many guides to do what you want, I am sure you can find something to put your movie on maybe even one VCD.

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[Nelson37]

Other than the loss of non-supported interlacing, which is not present in progressive video, and of course the obvious disadvantage of re-encoding, there is no inherent quality difference between MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. There is also no good reason to make such a conversion.

You are probably thinking VCD and MPEG-1 are the same thing, which they emphatically are not.

What you really need to do is re-create the original conversion using a lower bitrate, probably in conjunction with a re-size to a lower resolution to avoid bitrate starvation. MPEG type is much less relevant than these other factors to filesize and quality.

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Can you give me a URL where I can read about that?