Im trying to compress an mpeg

[MAD Mike]

Im trying to compress a 224 MB Mpeg 2 video to a 90 MB Mpeg 2 video using Tmpgenc. I tried the ol' "trial and error" method to find out which settings do what and I just cant seem to compress the file enough or it has horrible quality.

I need to know what settings I have to change so the final video will be around 90-100 MB. Like what bitrate to set it at and some other things.

Thanks in advance

PS: it can be done because i downloaded music videos that were 70 MB and had excellent quality and were longer then the music video im trying to compress.

[ya_jai]

Wow one music video file is about 224 MB, It is huge. I'm wordering what setting they use for that file. And yes you're right about 70 MB and good quality becuz all my music video files (mpeg2) are around 70-100 MB.

I'm not sure what format for your file but I'll say in NTSC if you live in PAL please adjust to fit your. First, I would set resolution to CVD (352x480, instead of 480x480), You can try 2 pass VBR with MAX 2520, AVG 2000 and MIN up to you, Leave audio as default 44.1 Khz and 224 kbit/sec. If file is still too big you can lower video setting until you got what you like.

BTW, to re-encode mpeg2 in TMPGEnc, I always frame serve with dvd2avi and then load d2v and wave file into TMPGEnc. I know that new TMPGEnc plus version support to encode mpeg2 directly, but as I tested quality wasn't as good as frame server from dvd2avi.

[MAD Mike]

Thanks for the reply. I record all my music videos from my tv tuner and export them in high quality mpeg2, thats why its about 200-250 MB per video.

Normally I wouldnt care about how compressed my videos are but Im trying to put the most music videos I can on a DVD and every meg counts.

Any other suggestions?

BTW, I use NTSC. Shoulda put that in the first post

[ya_jai]

I'm not sure what format for your file but I'll say in NTSC if you live in PAL please adjust to fit your. First, I would set resolution to CVD (352x480, instead of 480x480), You can try 2 pass VBR with MAX 2520, AVG 2000 and MIN up to you, Leave audio as default 44.1 Khz and 224 kbit/sec. If file is still too big you can lower video setting until you got what you like