Trying to convert Avi to VCD , disaster

[mentalmonkey555]

I tried to convert a 700MB avi file onto a vcd so that i could play it on my dvd player and after teh conversion it ended up at like 2400 MB and i dont have a dvd burner to burn it onto and i dont want to have to split it into 4 CD-Rs. i tried a reduced bitrate but it reduced the video quality drastically

Even when i do this conversion with the big file, the file ends up without sound I am using TMPGEnc .

I converted a small file into a one CD-R vcd but when i played it on my tv the image was very messed up and so was the audio. Am i supposted to interlace or set the tv ration differently?

Any advice is appreciated

[macleod]

read one of the many guides that 1) show you how to do this and 2)explain why the results that you received are the way it works.

[teegee420]

I have a feeling your avi has variable bitrate audio. Open the avi with Virtualdub, ignore the VBR error and click ok, go to "audio" and select "full processing mode", go to "file" and select "save wav". Use the wav file as the audio source in TMPGEnc. You will have to re-encode the video.

[reboot]

A 700 meg avi is going to take up at least 2, if not 3 or 4 CDR's at acceptable quality, assuming that it's roughly 130 minutes or more.
If it's less than 120, it will probably fit on two, with reasonable quality (SVCD).

[bugster]

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[xtreemkareem]

Could be an XviD? People tend to compress longer movies into XviD and we know that TMPGenc never likes XviD audio, even if CBR and if you change the FourCC. You have to demux the audio in VDub or VDub MP3 first. (Audio--> Full Processing Mode/ File --> Save Wav)