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  1. I am trying to fit 2 movies on one regular DVD. I have used the bitrate calculator and still the movie turned out to be 6.5 gig. I use TMPGEnc and it consistantly is wrong on how big the file will be. It always turns out to be bigger than it originally estimated. I thought figuring the bitrate myself would solve the problem, but it did not. Can anyone help?
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    What type is your source? AVI, DVD or ? How are you processing your audio? Are you using TMPGEnc for that? Did you extract the audio to wav first? Details can help pinpoint the problem.
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    Hello,
    As a last resort you could use a transcoder to shrink the authored video_ts folder. It will lower the quality a little. But this would work if you can't work out the bitrate.
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    More information will get you more replies. If your source file is an avi then it more than likely has vbr audio messing things up. you need to extract the audio to wav and then use that for your audio source in tmpgenc. If your source file is from dvd then you may have a buggy version of tmpgenc. I have heard of some people having file size problems with certain versions of tmpgenc...
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  5. Sorry for the lack of information, and thanks for the tips. The files are AVI. I normally use TMPGEnc to deal with the audio. Every now and then I convert some of my old VCD's to DVD format. When I do that I use Be Sweet to convert the audio. Either way TMPGEnc seems to underestimate the size of the file.
    I have very little experience converting the audio file. The only time I do that is when I'm converting from VCD to DVD, and then I'm only trying to get it to 48000. I'm not sure if I'm converting it to wav or not. Is Be Sweet what I should be using? Sorry for the dumb questions, and thanks again for the help.
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  6. Try encoding at 1/2D1 (if VHS quality levels are ok) around 2 to 3 k bitrate... that should then fit the vids on one DVD.
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    Likely you're having a VBR audio problem, like freebird73717 suggested. VBR audio confuses TMPGEnc. Extract the audio from the avi to wav using either Virtualdub or Goldwave. I like Goldwave as it will handle most audio types. When you have the wav file you use that as the audio input when you convert with TMPGEnc.
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  8. Thanks for the help. I did what you suggested, and it helped,but it's still underestimating the amount of space. Now it's only underestimating by 500MB. That still seems like a lot. Is that normal? Should I try something else?
    Thanks for the continued help.
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    You might try just using Besweet to encode the audio wav file instead of tmpgenc. It's easy using the besweet gui wizard. Then encode the video just as an elementary video stream. After it's done multiplex the two.

    Hope this helps!
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    Are we to assume you've already figured out how to unlock your bitrate setting in TMPGEnc so that you can manually enter the variable bitrate?
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    i find it strange that tmpegenc underestimates the filesize, when i use it it overestimates. e.g. i can go up to 105% and it will still fit (with no overburning or so).
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