1 cd movie

[xtreemman]

I have a movie 93 minutes in length and I am posting this for suggestions on how to fit this movie on 1 80min cd with the best possible quality. What settings should I use for TMPGE? What rate control mode should I use, CBR, CQ VBR, CQ...? Also what should I set the bitrate at? I plan to burn this with Nero and play it on a Pioneer 333. Thanks for your help.

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[Truman]

something to read.....
http://www.vcdhelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=25876&forum=1

[rodekill]

If you'd like to be able to fit it on one 700mb CD use the following settings (this will still produce a decent result, as long as you don't have a 32 inch monitor and want to watch it full screen, hehe)

Use CBR (always use CBR), encode at 480x480 (or 320x240), use an audio bitrate of 128k (CD quality), and use about 700k - 900k for your video bitrate.

[tweakybird]

If I had a nice TV (which I do), good size, sharp image, etc. I wouldn't even consider trying to fit a whole movie on one 80 min. CDR (it only fits 1/6 the data of a DVD, for christs sake). If I had an average 19" set, however, or a crappy TV to play VCDs on I would just use VCD resolution and drop the bitrate to make an XVCD. With 128k audio you can use a video bitrate of about 1,000k (standard VCD=1150) for 93 minutes of video on an 80 min. CD (according to the bitrate calculator here).

But why does everyone seem obsessed with putting a full movie on a CD? To make believe it's a DVD? After seeing many DVDs, some of them not even looking perfect, I can't imagine prefering a whole movie on 1 CD over 2 CDs, where you would only have to get up once (probably would be anyway) and have nice, high res. video without blockiness.

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[dVripper]

i agre 2 cds is best they only cost like 20p and take 20mins to burn.

[bkoyle]

if you are going to use 1 cd a vcd can have fairly good quality but I would recommend using the new 90 minute or 900 MB CDR's, there great. They take care of the just barely too big problem. I also like to cut out the credits.