What bitrate's are others using?

[blakteerz]

Hey, I'm trying to encode a SVCD it's 72 minutes 12 secs, i wanted to fit it onto one 80 Min disk, but after encoding it, it was 785 megs and the bitrate i used was 1275, (used the bitrate calculator from the Converting to SVCD section of vcdhelp.com) i have tried this twice already and that is about 48 hours of wasted time cause each time i can't get it to get down to 700 or below, so can any1 tell me what bitrate i should use to get it down but not lose so much quality or is this just crazy?

[kinneera]

The 785 MB result is perfect! An SVCD is written in Mode2 (without error correction bits), so in reality an 80 min. disc can hold about 800 MB of data.

[darkelf]

yes, this is a good number for an 80 min disk.

Using CDRWIN to bern CDz with the BIN/CUE option (which
'sees' CD-images as Mode 2, will rip a plum-full CD to this
size.

I never understood at the time.

There are three standard block sizes on CDR/CDROM/CDRW discs:

sizes are bytes per block.

2352 - raw mode.
2048 - Mode1
2336 - Mode2

the 785 size you are seeing is probably Mode2 compatible. 2048 blocks will give you the ~700meg file size.