Output size too much....

[params7]

i'm trying to convert a 650mb .AVI file with these specs -
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5512/untitled7to.jpg

to VCD using TMPGEnc, and its projected approx size is is coming out to be 2.5 GB!!
Is this normal ? Or am i doing something wrong ?? Please help, if you want to know more please ask.

Thanks.

[Baldrick]

It should be around 710MB if you are making VCD (=about 10 MB/minute).
See www.videohelp.com/tmpgenc#problems (the first problem)

[the * dude]

ahhh seen you probably got a vbr mp3 audio... you need to open the vid in say goldwave & save the audio as a wav... then do it again with this audio....seeing ur film is 1hr10min it sould be ~610mb.....

vbr mess tmpeg up it makes the vid look like its +2hrs.. so the last hr is just blank video...

[params7]

alright i seperated the WAV, and seperataley encoded it with wav as audio source, i got a file arnd 890 MB. now i split that up with easy video splitter so i could divide them into 2 file in 2 700MB cd's....i ended up dividing it by 697 MB and the other onbe arnd 150MB, now the wierd thing is i bring up the nero vcd burning up, i select the file and the first 697mb file actually took up only 618 of the total space on the disk, i select the second file and it ultimately add ups to arnd 710MB! This are 2 parts of a file which was originally 890MB in size....Can anybody tell me WTF is going on here ??

[mats.hogberg]

Authored as VCD (which should be done with VCDEasy - not Nero, btw, as Nero, from version to version has problems creating a compliant VCD) you can fit (very close to) 800 MB of VCD mpg on a 700 MB/80 min CD-R, 900 MB on a 90 min CD-R. It's because of the mode a VCD is written in (without error checks and stuff).

/Mats

[params7]

cool..i'll try out VCDeasy then..thanks for that info.

[params7]

Hmmm, Can anyone tell me the exact ratio between the real size and the filtered VCD on disk size please ??????

[mats.hogberg]

I don't get you. All you have to know, is that you can encode to 799 MB VCD mpg and safely author it as VCD and burn it to a 700 MB CD-R
Put simply, VCD is 10 MB/minute.
What Windows or other apps say is on the disc is irrelevant. Windows is all about file and file sizes. VCD looks as files in Windows, but is actually not. The video is raw mpeg data stored in the CD data sectors - not as a file.

/Mats

[params7]

^thanks that clears it