CVD encoding help needed

[nutty88]

I've been searching around the internet and found out about CVD. I understand that it's just a variation of SVCD with a 352 x 576 (pal) resolution. I was wondering if anyone could help me with the settings for TMPGEnc. I want to fit around 1 hour onto a CD. 3 episodes 20 mins each. But the catch is I would prefer not to use 2pass as I'm impatient and don't want to wait twice as long. Can it be done?

[Gazorgan]

1 hour is marginal for SVCD at 480x480. At 352x576 you are at 88% of the pixels that 480x480. This makes a 1 hour disk about right for a good bitrate.

It's easy:

800 MB total disk space

60 minutes total (three 20 minute eps)

800/60 = 13.33 Mbps or 225 KB/sec or 1802 Kbps.

Allow 192 Kbps for the audio leaves you 1802-192 = 1610 Kbps

Set for CBR at 1500 and 192 Kbps for the audio and you will fit 60 minutes on a CDR with enough margin for error. With bitrates this low, VBR is much more useful, but CQ can be pretty dam good, just not as predictable in filesize.