why is one bigger then the other??

[vivrantpork]

ok i tried converting one avi movie to vcd.. it was about 23 minutes long and the final vcd came out to be about 233 mb.... but then i tried to convert another avi it was again... 23 minutes... but when i converted it to vcd the final file was 600 mb?? i dont get it because both movies were the same length but one was so much bigger can anyone help me to make the size smaller??

[Mirror_Image]

If you encoded a 23 minute video and the resulting mpeg file wound up being the normal ~230MB, that's OK for a compliant VCD. However, if you encoded a ~23 minute video and the resulting mpeg file wound up being ~800MB, then you didn't make a compliant 1150/224 VCD, you made a XVCD or XSVCD with an average bitrate of ~3036/224! (assuming the audio was 224) You might want to make sure you didn't have the wrong template loaded, or that someone else didn't alter the template that you normally use.

[vivrantpork]

but i was using the project wizard and the bitrate was 1150... =/ but i will try changin the settings manually by myself... ill tell u the results =/

[Mirror_Image]

If any one else uses that PC, it is possible that they unlocked the default VCD template and jacked up the bitrate. A long shot, but it's all I can think of right now.

[vivrantpork]

nope the settings are correct!! i just dunt get this!! i guess ill try another program to try and convert it..

[AnnihilatorTokyo]

It's not that the audio is screwed up and is after the movie? I mean, 23 minutes movie followed by 23 minutes of audio. That would double the size of the movie, almost at least.

[vivrantpork]

yes it was the audio... first i had to extract it with virtualdub.. then convert th wave file to mp2 with tmpeg... then put the avi as the video source and the mp2 as the audio file