BURNING TO ONE CD....................... :evil:

[voided]

I have tried many different things and maybe I just suck but I cant get any to work.. Could someone point me in the direction of a walkthrough or tell me how I can put an entire movie on one disk cause I know it can be done. Thanks

[Martyn1980]

Ive put 2 and a half hours on a CD, but only as an experiment, only put a film on one CD if your happy with Picture Quality that makes Long Play VHS look like DVD.

The best ive done is 90mins and that looked like VHS half the time and blocky the other half, your better sticking to two, but if your not fussy about quality then use a bitrate calculator to calculate the average bitrate to fit on 1 disc then use that as an average bitrate and use CCE 3 pass mulitpass with 300min 2520max and the average bitrate will change depending on the film, also use 128 audio.

sorry i cant go into more detail its 2am here and im off to bed now, if you need more details then say and i'll reply tommorrow.

[voided]

if you would it would be greatly appreciated

[liquid217]

just use vbr 2 pass (if your using tmpgenc) set the average bitrate to the size needed. This can be calculated with a bitrate calculator

www.vcdhelp.com/calc.html

[Psycho_Dad_Rules]

Ehrmmm,

I guess it also kinda depends what format you'll be using. DivX can easily fit large movies on one CD. But if you going for SVCD, just use DVD2SVCD and change the disc settings to the length of the movie. Meaning you tell DVD2SVCD that you want 0-90 mins on 1 cd 91-whatever on 2 etc. Then when you create a movie which is 90mins or less, you'll end up with just one disc. Quality will drop, but it helps to use 4-5 pass encoding using CCE !!!

Greetz,

pSyChO dAd

[SatStorm]

A 4:3 movie about 80 - 95 min, always need at least 2 CDs for good quality if you use SVCD/CVD.

There is always the -X- Factor ofcourse. SxVCD form Sefy is a very good alternative if your Standalone supports the format (most cheap and recent standalones support it)
Then, there are xVCDs, like KVCD or CVCD, SeVCD. Those are basic VBR xVCDs, with various frame sizes (resolutions). They using mpeg 1 and they are capable to produce good quality in small filesize

If your movie is 16:9, then you can experiment a bit with CVD. You need to risize the movie to 320 X 544 and add borders on top and on the bottom of the screen. Use "keep aspect ratio 2" on TMPGenc. That way, you force the movie to became ~ 2-11-1. So, the active screen of the picture is about VCDs resolution, so about the same bitrate is needed. Imagine a Picture in Picture: the big picture is a black backround (no bitrate needed) and the small picture is the movie (the active screen, all the bitrate goes there). It gives a cinemascope - kind picture and you keep high the resolution. Use VCD bitrates but always VBR with the max 2520 and the minimum of 600 (never lower if you use tmpgenc!).

That way, I made excellent CVDs, on 1 CD, with 90 min movies (or more), like SHREK. I saw no blocks, except in one-two scenes, barelly noticable (no blocks, like pixel noise, pixel distortion...)
It is an advance proccess, but the results are great. Using SVCD gonna make the picture sharper, but expect blocks....

[Martyn1980]

CVD is great for getting one film on a disc if the film is under 90mins, over that and youve got to use standard VCD resolution.

The other day i stuck Mimic 2 on one disc using 352x576 res and an audio bitrate of 128k, 5 pass VBR, i didn't want to waste 2 discs on something i didn't think i would like

The easiest way to do this is to use DVD2SVCD as Psycho said and change all the disc amounts to 1 disc, and use a minimum of 300 and a maximum of 2520, thats what i use, but it depends on your DVD some DVD's dont like low bitrates.

Also Mulitpass is essential if your using CCE, preferably 4 or 5 pass but it depends on Computer power and time constraints, you can get 90mins on a disc at higher than VCD quality, but not that much higher and if your source is DVD then your gonna see a big drop in quality.