(s)vcds on one cd?

[dmikester1]

When you guys make vcds or svcds are you able to fit them on just one cd? Or do you have to use two? When I converted my divx movie to mpeg it came out to 1.01 gigs. So do I have to split this up and stick it on two cds?
Thanks
Mike

[omoses]

I'm mostly using S-VCD, then a normal movie will fit on 2 CDs. When I do not need the quality (mostly when grabbing video from TV or cassette) I encode to video-cd, and when the movie is no longer than 90 Minutes, it will fit on 1 CD, when it is longer, I try making a S-VCD with just 352*288 and VBR-MPEG2, so I get about 100 to 105 minutes on 1 CD with acceptable quality.

[vhelp]

dmikester1,

I use TWO.

It always end up having 100mb to 190mb left, and I have no choice but
to burn to a second CD.

I use 2520mx/1850mn bitrate for mpeg2

I'm after qualtiy, nothing but quality!!
Sooner or later, things will change for the DVD-R/W stuff and I'm just
buying time, so until then, I'm using the above, so that I can just MOVE
all the SVCDs to DVD, and THEN, will prob. use just slightly higher
settings for just a tad more quality.

Well, that's it for now, ...am readying myself for another UPload sample
clip for ya's to enjoy!


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[salvius]

Yes, you can fit a xSVCD on one CD with an acceptable quality for about 2 hours of a movie with decent quality. It all depends how much action it has and the tone of colors etc. etc.

Basically, yes, you can do it. I encode all my xSVCD movies (although I mostly do Divx in the first place) to fit one cd. Most of the time, it looks good to me, if I want more quality, again, I'll encode to DivX. Sometimes though, there is no choice, you must use two or be stuck with crappola results.

BTW, this topic has been beaten to death. Search the forums, you'll find a lot of talk about this.

[dmikester1]

So if I want the best possible quality what format should I use? Is XSVCD the best? I have a panny rp-91 which plays every format, so I'm not worried about compatibility.
Thanks
Mike