Fitting a large SVCD on a single disc

[dvdman69]

I am capturing at 480 X 576 I would like to encode as MPEG 2 and burn as SVCD on to a single disc, I have tried the bitrate calc and Fit cd but the pics always come out blocky even set to multipass vbr, any other way of fitting it, The file is 2 hrs long when Tmpeg with normal mci file it comes out 2.6 gig.

[dbaker6165]

yeh right... 2 gig file on a cd-rom

[Mirror_Image]

2 hours of video on one CD-R...that's an average bitrate of about 890k/sec; that's not a lot of data to spread across 480x480. At twice that average bitrate, you'd likely still see a fair amount of visible macroblocks.

[El_Mero_Zooter]

Dman,

It depends on the quality and source of your capture. The cleaner the source is the better it will compress. You can get two hours of movie at 480 x Y, with the right template. If your source was say dvd, no prob. I've done a few svcd's, complaint, 480x480, hitting the 799 to 802mb mark. Some recent dvd's will come out with very very nice quality. Some i've done rivaled cce 3 pass {two discs} using tmpgenc 2.53, and have fit on one cd. The last project was a capture at dvd resolution from an older vhs tape. It compress very nicely, with very good quality {for a vhs capture that is} on two cd's. When i ran a second encode to fit it on one cdr, there were few tiny blockz here and there, and it wasnt as sharp as the same encode on a two cdr-svcd set.

If you want to stick to svcd try one of the templates from schizzon, or the Scissors' templates: http://forum.vcdhelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=81201&start=0
for svcd.

For Xvcd
try Berrantus. http://www.geocities.com/berrantus/ <---i havent tested these yet.
or Kwag'z.

Kwags templates will let you do two hours in mpg1 vbr, rivaling svcd quality, but you can tweak the video settings to 480 x 480, or 352x240{from the default 352x480} or leave it a 352x480 half dvd, you player may play this setting and display it properly , (as opposed to windows media player which will show it at 353x480).

ZtR

[SundanceKid]

hi
you can also try for 1 disc(90min CD-R,2h movie)encoding 352x288(240) mpg2 VBR eg. 2 pass Avg 900-min 500-max 1450 with CCE ,
this is not a legal SVCD format but my standalone player does not care , good results whith Anime by using this Matrix settings
(i havn't tried them with Tmpeg)

Anime Matrix Intra
. 8,16,17,19,22,26,31,37,
16,17,19,22,26,31,37,44,
17,19,22,26,31,37,44,53,
19,22,26,31,37,44,53,63,
22,26,31,37,44,53,63,74,
26,31,37,44,53,63,74,85,
31,37,44,53,63,74,85,96,
37,44,53,63,74,85,96,99

NonInta1
16,32,33,35,38,42,47,53,
32,33,35,38,42,47,53,62,
33,35,38,42,47,53,62,72,
35,38,42,47,53,62,72,83,
38,42,47,53,62,72,83,95,
42,47,53,62,72,83,95,99,
47,53,62,72,83,95,99,99,
53,62,72,83,95,99,99,99

cheers