AVI>SVCD CD Numbers

[grumblybear]

Okay, maybe I'm just so much of a noob that I don't know any better; but shouldn't I be able to convert my ONE CD ~700mb XviD AVI file to ONE CD SVCD to play in a DVD player?

I was trying to follow a guide using DVD2SVCD and once it started encoding using TMPGEnc I noticed that it was created two CD's.
I checked up on this in other guides and they linked me to the bitrate calculator and for my movie length (1:32:25) it said if I used one 80min CD it would only use a bitrate of around 900. Apprently I'm supposed to use a bitrate of over 1600 so I would need two CD's.

Will my movie just look like complete crap if I use one CD? If I want to use one CD anyway, how do I tell TMPGEnc to do it that way instead of two?

[Nelson37]

First question - NO.

Second question - YES. (the crap part) Answer 2b - that would be to use the bitrate given by the bitrate calculator.

Completely different compression algorithms yield dramatically different file sizes.

[grumblybear]

Okay so when I was using the DVD2SVCD method once it started encoding in TMPGEnc I saw the video progress and it showed remaining time as should.

But when I tried to load the audio and video files and set the source range in TMPGEnc and just encode that way, the video was a black box that said "warning: nothing to output bframe decoder lag" and it didn't show a remaining time. Was there something I did wrong?