VDub Problem

[heygurl]

Hey~ I'm new-ish to virtualdub but I never had this issue before. I recently reformatted my computer and had to re-download everything, including vdub. So I'm getting ready to encode a video with subtitles only to find that the file size of the output is going to be over 1GB. While the input video is only 700MB. Usually I have no problems with encoding. I just compress it with XVID, add the filters and I'm on my way. But not anymore!

I searched everywhere. I re-downloaded and downloaded codecs, download AC3 audio to make sure the audio is compressed ,etc. But nothing seems to work!

[manono]

File size is entirely a function of the bitrate. Choose a codec; choose a bitrate. And make sure your original audio isn't being converted to WAV audio.

[heygurl]

But I never had to manually choose the bitrate. I don't even know how to do that because I just used to encode it after those few steps. No matter what I do, the file size is always over 1GB

[manono]

Don't choose a bitrate then. Choose a codec and then choose a quantizer at which to encode. What codec are you using (XviD, DivX, whatever)?

[heygurl]

I generally use xVid. When I've encoded before, I just clicked xvid, did the filters and it encoded fine. But now when I select xvic the video comes out too big but everything else is fine.

I also have ffdshow. I tried to encode it with ffdshow too but then the video comes out too small, bad quality and oddly off center. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

[manono]

I generally use xVid. When I've encoded before, I just clicked xvid, did the filters and it encoded fine. But now when I select xvic the video comes out too big but everything else is fine.

File size is entirely a function of the bitrate. Choose a codec; choose a bitrate. And make sure your original audio isn't being converted to WAV audio.

I don't know what else to tell you. Maybe you had a different version of XviD installed before that used a different default bitrate.

[heygurl]

Is there a way to change the default bitrate?

[manono]

You set the bitrate in the XviD Configuration panel. If running 2 passes, you set it for the 2nd pass:

[heygurl]

I changed the settings to your settings, it was on Single Pass but I don't remember what the Target Bitrate was but it was a big number. But when I previewed output, the file size was still projected to be over 1GB. IDK what else to do. Maybe retire from encoding. lol