problem

[punk666]

Ok I am very new to this. my friend gave me a movie in a
MPG format. It was oringaly in two discs but I have already
edited to one disc but the movie together is 1hour and 20min long my cd-r's are only 80min long. and I saw a internet pop-up that said how to burn a full-lenght 2 hour
movies on to 1 VCD disc but now I cant't find it and I personaly would rather have one disc movie than a 2 disc movie. does anybody know how to make a VCD that is longer than 80min on 1 80min cd-r disc or overburn?(not sure). please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!thankyou very much!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aldus4]

There are many ways you can get more movie on to 1 single CD-R.

You can either choose a CD-R with a bigger capacity 80min (700MB) CD-R or go for the +90min CD-R's (upto 845MB).
Naturally your burner will have to be able to burn this type of media - overburning (again if your burner supports this feature) will give you maybe 1-2mins more.

The other way is decreasing quality. Here you have 2 possibilities the audio or video part. Most people try to decrease the bitrate of the audio part of the mpeg file first. A standard VCD file has 224kb/s bitrate and choose to go down to 128kb/s. To do this you have to split your mpeg file into an audio part and video part - and the process is called de-muxing (or long word de-multiplexing).
You can do this using TMPGEnc. In the MPEG Tools you'll find this helpful tool. After changing the bitrate (TMPGEnc also can do this) of the audio part of your mpeg file you mux (or multiplex) them back together again. This whole process is relatively fast.

If the new muxed mpeg file is still not small enough to fit on 1 CD-R you have to start on the video part of your mpeg clip. Again you split the file (de-mux it), but this time you have to choose a lower bitrate for the video-stream and re-encode you file. This will take much longer - and the visual quality will be impaired. Some people (Sefy etc.)have developed templates for TMPGEnc (in the tools section) which will give you quite good results at a lower bitrate than standard VCD specifications.