VCD help

[MrSpeed106]

I am transfering a video collection of a TV show to VCD for peservation purposes. I have already captured the first 3 episodes(To uncompessed AVI) and converted them to VCD-Compliant MPEG. My problem is that 3 episodes, along with the one level menu sysetm I've added will not fit on an 80 min. CD. I have several choices when it comes to the AVI compressor I can use during the capture process but which one results in the best quality coupled with the smallest AVI size? (Thereby resulting in a smaller VCD-Compliant MPEG).....*sigh*... help

[anon]

;-? just came here to look for the answer to this same general question! I can only get ~250mb of avis on a vcd. does that sound right? (Doesn't to me...)

[Hateslife]

Umm... Regardless of your source video, the size of the MPEG-1 will be the same, if it is VCD-compliant. Rigidly compliant VCD's are 1150 CBR video and 224 audio.

No matter what you encode, it's still going to be the same size, since the bitrate is CONSTANT. 80 minutes on a 80 minute cd. No more, no less.

In fact, uncompressed video is an insane waste of space.. At least use a lossless codec(like huffy) or something. Actually, if you have a fast computer, you could probably capture directly to MPEG-1.


As for the other dude, keep in mind, AVI is essentially meaningless. It's like WAV. It can have almost anything wrapped up inside it. You must have some really low quality, ultra-heavily compressed video for it to be 80 minutes in 250 mb. I wouldn't waste my time or hard drive space keeping such heavily compressed (and probably pornographic) video on my hard drive.

[anon]

hehehe ;-? don't you be dissin on my anime collection mister. It's originally in DivX but for some reason when I use VDub too cut the title etc. (using straight vid conversion) TMGenc can then read it...
Anyway I'll just put it on data CD see how lucky I get.
BTW I probly hate pr0n as much as you.

[Hateslife]

Anime or porn, I hate all grainy-ass low-quality artifact-ridden video

I've seen some awesome DivX compression before, but you simply cannot get 80 minutes of VCD-quality video inside of 250 mb. I mean, what are these pirates thinking? What good is a movie, TV show, etc if half of the movie is artifacts?

Divx really is the MP3 of video: Idiots use it, compress things too heavily, then delude themselves into not noticing.