DVD Size ?

[Joef2k2]

Hello, i have recently been buring DVD's after encoding them with TMPGEnc and authoring them with DVD LAB, up to now ive had no problems at all, but recently i have attained a few DVDRIPS of some films which are in SVCD format and i encode them to DVD PAL with 48khz sound etc, but it seems when i use TMPGEnc the size of a DVDRIP changes dramatically, it only recudes when i change the VBR to say 5300kbps where as before ive had it at like 8000kbps. I have to change it to 5300 because thats about 2.2GB and i have another part to add which totals 4.5GB when on DVD. Reason im askin is because when i did a DVDRIP last nite and put it on DVD i noticed a slight flicker where as before my DVDS have been perfect but they have been Screeners etc.... is there any way which i can keeo the 8000kbps and decrease the size so i can fit the film on DVD disc ? i tried DVD Shrink but it says i have to import an ifo file which i dont have, mine are in mp2 and mva files ? i would be grateful if anyone could help me with this problem ! thanx

[Treebeard]

You cant increase the bitrate to 8000 and get smaller file size. Your also discussing illegal movies (screeners) and that is a big

[Joef2k2]

i dont want to increase the bit rate mate, i wana leave it at 8000 for it to be able to fil on DVD, not decrease to try make space for the DVD to fit

[solarfox]

File size is directly related to bit rate, so the only way to decrease the size of the TMPGenc output file is to decrease the bit rate.

When it comes to converting SVCD files, you're wasting your time and disc space transcoding to 8000Kbps video and 48KHz LPCM audio anyway, since those settings are far higher than the settings the SVCD MPEG was originally encoded with. Since an SVCD is typically around 3000-4000Kbps, with an MPEG Layer-2 @ 192Kbps audio track, IMO there's really no point in insisting on encoding at 8000Kbps/48KHz LPCM.

If you really must have your higher video bit rate, though, try leaving the audio track as 192Kbps Layer-2 instead; that'll give you a bit more headroom to bump the video rate up. (48KHz LPCM is roughly equivalent, in terms of the amount of disc space required, to having a 1500Kbps(!) audio track, so by leaving the audio as Layer-2 you ought to be able to run the video rate up to as high as 6500, especially when using 2-pass VBR.)

[Joef2k2]

thanx for that help ? so ur basically telling me that i dont need to have the video rate that high ? if so then what would u recommend as im fairly new to this and seems to think if it works its ok lol !! but if thats the case then do u have any idea why the video flickers at times wen quality becomes better/