How Many Minutes on 700mb cd-r??

[CaliSurfer008]

How many minutes of an SVCD can you fit onto a 700mb cd-r??!!

[snowmoon]

Ok.... here we go again...

700MB disk is 80 Minutes that will fit 800MB of MPEG data. Don't believe me, check the FAQ.

General consensious is that 800MB using VBR can fit between 30-50 minutes of good/excellent quality 50-60 minutes of ok/good quality or upwards of 70 minutes of poor quality video. Many factors affect the size/quality outcome of SVCD. Obviously you could fit much more excellent quality C-SPAN on a SVCD ( probably over an hour ) but try and do the same with an action cartoon and you will be very dissapointed.

[TheGoldenDroid]

I've got my hands on a few svcds and the majority of them have about 40 minutes per cd and they all have excellent quality.

[MOVIEGEEK]

It depends what bitrate you encode at(usually 35-40min.)
http://www.vcdhelp.com/svcd.htm

[sjm817]

As others have said, it depends on the source. I just finished making 20 SVCD's from 8mm home movies. I got 1 Hr of very good quality video on each of them. To squeeze 1 Hr, you MUST use 2 pass VBR encoding. My settings using TMPGEnc were 1680/2620/300 Ave/Max/Min with 96K audio and "Best Quality" motion search precision. The audio from an 8mm camcorder is nothing special, so I used a lower audio bitrate to increase video quality. The SVCD's came out very nice. They look as good as the original 8mm tapes.

[homerpez]

I can do a routine ~80 to ~90 minutes for SVCD, with target quality being as good as Digital Cable (SVCD bitrate and res). This is using CCE 4-pass with 2520 MAX and and AVG set to fit the space of the disc.

You do lose "total perfection" at ~40-50 minutes, but I can still beat VCD picture quality/sharpness by using CCE, even as long as 90 mintes. Quality being "very good" to "acceptable"...

I should add, source matters too.. if you're doing NTSC, this "80-90 minute" thing means you have Widescreen DVD source, encode at 23.976 (fewer frames), and pulldown. Plus, reduced audio bitrate (I use 128k). With other sources (Huffy 4:3 cap), I would not attempt to do anything as long as 80 minutes.

If you use TMPGEnc, I probably woudn't attempt more than an hour per disc, unless their quality has drastically improved (not from what I've seen).