VCDEasy problem: creates a 927meg bin file.

[RaleighNC]

I'm ready to author 783megs worth of mpegs for a svcd disc. I have overburn checked, no chapter entries defined, setup my menus, and bin/cue checked. So I click GO. End result bin file is 920mpeg+ file. Thats not going to fit. Yeah, I tried to auto burn

What is use 2336 byte sectors for cd images??

What is Insert comments into genereated XML files?? This should be too big.

What is adding 140megs to the bin, the menues??

TIA

[VirtualAdept]

Have a look at the output of VCDImager as it generates the image. My guess it that it says something about "padding the stream on the fly.. hope that's okay for you".
MPEG streams have to be aligned on some packet boundary (section 2.5.3.1 of the vcdimager manual), though I don't know exactly what that means.
I've had that problem once, too, but after reencoding the stream at a different bitrate it was okay.

use 2336 byte sectors for cd images : normally VCD/SVCD doesn't use error correction, making them more prone to scratches than normal data CDs. If you turn that on, you can scratch 'em but less content will fit on the disk.

Insert comments into genereated XML files: VCDEasy inserts some comments into the XML it generates for feeding to VCDImager. You don't really need this if you author and burn in one go, only if you'd store the XML for later use or something, but it doesn't enlarge the image either.

[vitualis]

Have a look at the output of VCDImager as it generates the image. My guess it that it says something about "padding the stream on the fly.. hope that's okay for you".
MPEG streams have to be aligned on some packet boundary (section 2.5.3.1 of the vcdimager manual), though I don't know exactly what that means.
I've had that problem once, too, but after reencoding the stream at a different bitrate it was okay.

This is likely to be the problem. I suggest that you remultiplex your MPEG first. That is, use TMPGEnc, Files --> MPEG Tools --> Simple multiplex.

Load your MPEG file.

Set your save file name.

Change the setting to MPEG-1 Video-CD if you are making a VCD. Change the setting to MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard) if you are making an XVCD.

This will solve your problem. Your MPEG file wasn't multiplexed/packed correctly and VCDImager was padding it (adding null bytes) so that it would fit into the 2324 bytes sectors.

use 2336 byte sectors for cd images : normally VCD/SVCD doesn't use error correction, making them more prone to scratches than normal data CDs. If you turn that on, you can scratch 'em but less content will fit on the disk.

Please, don't make up an explanation if you don't know it. Turning this on will not mean you have increased error protection. It also does not mean you lose data capacity. All it does it to write the CUE/BIN image in 2336 bytes/sector mode. It appears to be necessary for 90/99min CD images for some burners to burn them properly. That is all.

Regards.