Non Compliant VCD file size

[batnv]

Hi all

Please could someone explain this to me.

If you make a Compliant 70 minute VCD it comes out to be approx 800MB and Nero will happily burn it to disc for you. Now I want to put a 90 minute VCD onto a single 80min CD so I decide to reduce the video, audio bitrate or both. The file comes out at approx 800MB again but once loaded into Nero, Nero complains ( even with the compliancy check off ) and shows me that the file is to big for the disk.

Please is there any way around this.

Thanks in advance

batnv.

[redwudz]

Look to the upper left for, 'What is' VCD and you will see a standard compliant VCD is 1150Kbps video rate. Anything else will be non-compliant and may not play on many players. By reducing the bitrate, it went out of spec.

And welcome to our forums.

EDIT: And I guess I could add that Nero probably wants to re-encode it to 1150 and then it would be too big. That's probably the source of the Nero error.

[MaDmiZe]

You can fit a movie between 780 and 790mb on a standard 700mb CDR in VCD format ...with VCD its the file size that limits this not minutes.
I have fit 144 minutes on one 700mb CDR as nonstandard VCD..as rule standard VCD will be 700mb for 70minutes.
I burn with Nero as a VCD, Make sure I check non complient (or non standard) and make sure its burning in mode 2 - .....and one last thing 800 mb does't always fit ...so I aim for less...like 780mb or so.
I have done hundreds of these non-standard VCD's all burned with NERO, One 700mb 70min CDR per movie...reguardless of length.

[mats.hogberg]

Enable overburning, use 90 min CD-R. Even a 90 min CD-R reports as being 80 min - That's why overburning has to be enabled.

/Mats