Best specs for creating quality VCD w/ TMPEnc.

[seacom]

I am wondering what the best specs are to use for the best quality video on a VCD with TMPEnc. I taking the video from a Divx movie file and I want to be able to fit about an hour of video one one VCD. What is the best way to go about this?

[wee haggis]

Experiment with 1 minute identical clips using the various templates on offer (TMPGE's own or the templates here in the Tools section)and burn on CDRW.
View and compare them on your DVD and choose whats acceptable to your eye.

[ya_jai]

If you ask me, I would say standard VCD is the best for me, becuz my player cannot handle XVCD verywell. And If I can choose I would choose SVCD to be my first choice.

To answer your question, it depends on your player, What max bitrate can your player handle? different player can handle vcd at different bitrate. Wee haggis gave you the right idea. Experimant with yourself, but for me I would suggest to do short clip like 5 mins to be safe. You can encode with different bitrate each file and burn them together in one CDRW so that you can compare which you like the best. Then when you wanna fit 60 mins into 1 CD (remember you can fit around 800MB into one 80 mins CD) you can do the math from filesize you got. Now you know what setting you would use to fit your need.

BTW If you player can handle VCD(VBR) I would suggest you to try both CBR and 2 pass VBR at same bitrate.