Oh WOW! My first DVD rip using DVD2SVCD but

[silab]

OK, so i got my first DVD rip using DVD2SVCD in only 7 and a half hours!!!

Originally, i tried it out the other night and would take me 30+ hours on my pentium 3 @ 500 however, in one of my threads, I followed this

"Either CBR, or enter 1-3 in the VBR space. This will lower your encode time. The bottle neck isn't the software, it's your CPU. CCE is faster than TMPGenc so..."

So i used CBR, i thought the quality would be bad but it still looks awesome. Surprisingly this 1 hour and 52 minute movie fit in 2 CDS!!!! How did it happen?

Also what is CBR or VBR stuff?

Thanks

[SiCN]

CBR = Constant Bitrate, means that the bitrate is fixed.
VBR = Variable Bitrate, means that the bitrate is variable and more bits are allocated to complex scenes.

[silab]

So VBR will get the size bigger???

Also, anyone can answer why my 1 hour and 52 minute movie fit in 2 cds? (which I am happy about)

[sommersby]

Will it be larger? Maybe, probubly not

If the movie is full of action scenes then yes, it will probubly be bigger, but that also depends on your bit rate, if you use vbr with a max of 2300 compared to cbr with a bit rate of 2400 then the 2400 will always be larger. On the average movie your average bitrate using vbr will be around 2/3 to 3/4 of the max bitrate you set, so figure your size from that.