.bin and cue files incorrectly sized?

[Dunnyman]

I'm losing my marbles over this one, hopefully someone can help!
I use ffmpegX to convert two half hour TV eps to VCD. It creates a muxed MPEG1 file for me for each episode. I join the two together, and then try to author a VCD using ffmpegX, instead of my two 200-odd meg episodes giving me a 400-odd meg bin file, I get a 200 meg .bin file.
So I try VCD tools, same thing, I try a few other tools, same thing, so I try and use VCD Tools to import the 200 meg files sepaerately, and the two files give me.....200 megs!!! Toast used to be able to handle MPEG1 files, but now the damn thing wants to re-encode everything you give it, no matter WHAT standard you've used. Anyone have any pointers on getting these .bin files to come out the right size?
It'd be much appreciated...

[galactica]

is the 200 meg .bin the whole thing? or just the half?
Does sound odd indeed!

[major]

You may use VCD Builder with the non-joined MPG files and create a single image.

[galactica]

That would be my next suggestion. let us know how it goes. Probably what happened is your joined mpeg has a time-code error at the join spot and the image app is freaking out

you can do as major says, or just demux/remux your joined file and that should set it straight