Maximim length of VCD

[srv_rools]

anyone know the Max?

[anilms]

I have heard (not seen) of 90-99 minute VCDs. From my experience I can tell you that audio and video go out of sync once you exceed 70 minutes. I have created VCDs which are above 70 minutes using NTI CD Maker but Audio and Video start going out of sync.

[TOMMO]

Remember to leave a little space for esstial VCD files.

72 minutes on a 74 Minute CDR
78 minutes on a 80 minute CDR
89 minutes on a 90 minutes CDR

However your CD Writer must be able support overburn and you need use NERO.

[hvr]

just fyi, nero is neither the best recommendation nor is it the only burning app which allows you to overburn... so you don't actually need nero to accomplish that

[AntnyMD]

If you look into nonstandard VCDs, Sefy's VBR xVCD can get you up to 90 minutes on a 700mb CD. Admittedly, my point of reference is my copy of Charlie's Angels, where I used VBR MPEG-1, min 0, max 1150, audio bitrate 96kbps mono. I only intended to a) see if it worked, and b) play back at low volume on a crappy computer at work for the purposes of amazing people.

[RFontenot]

In nero, if you deselect "Use CD-i app", you can burn 79 minutes of video onto an 80 minute CDR.

With my ATI AIW Radeon, I have made VCD captures which exceed 150 minutes without losing sync. I could probably do more, but I've never needed to capture more than that.

RF

[TOMMO]

Obviously mistaken then. I apologise for apparently providing incorrect information.

[vitualis]

Minimum length of the first data track is 6 seconds. If you don't use the CD-i app or any segment-items, it will be 6 seconds long...

Thus, on 74min media, you can get up to 73min 54sec.

On 80min media, you can get up to 79min 54sec... etc.

I would personally give a few seconds leeway, but 73:30 and 79:30 is definitely achieveable (I've done it multiple times).

Thus, theorectically you could have a VCD up to 99min 53sec long (if you had media that could write up to 99min 59sec). You can't have anything higher without on standard CDs.

Regards.