svcd on 3 cds wanting on 2 cds

[niceaznguy]

i made svcd movies with smartripper & dvdx & a say 2 hr movie it takes up 3 cds say 40 mins of movie on each 80 min cd is it possible to fit it on 2 cds & still have great quality?


please help

[jkl]

maybe. but here's a general assuption. 1/3 less space, a 1/3 less quality.
well not quite a 1/3 less quality. 3 700mb cds with 40 minutes each comes out to about 2333 kb/sec(audio+video). now, 2 700mb cds with 60 minutes each comes out to about 1556 kbs/sec(audio+video). now suppoose you use an audio bitrate of 190. that means you only really have 2143 kb/sec video bitrate for 3 cds and 1366 kb/sec video bitrate for 2 cds. you can adjust your bitrate accordingly if you want it to fit on 2 cds. but in my opinion the quality will not be acceptable(at least not the kind of quality i like)

[PlaiBoi]

I personally don't use a video bitrate lower than 2000, and I never change the audio from the 224 standard. Most movies go on 3 CD's this way...i've had a few movies fit on 2 CD, such as Orange County and 13 Ghosts (there shorter movies). I've also had movies that go 4 CD's, like LOTR. I guess I like my stuff good quality...like my sig... .

[REDi]

I personally don't use a video bitrate lower than 2000, and I never change the audio from the 224 standard. Most movies go on 3 CD's this way...i've had a few movies fit on 2 CD, such as Orange County and 13 Ghosts (there shorter movies). I've also had movies that go 4 CD's, like LOTR. I guess I like my stuff good quality...like my sig... .

yeah.. seein as how cheap cds are nowadays ($18 cdn for 50 is what i spend). the only drawback is having to switch the cds more often (unless you haave a dvd changer or something)

[dc91gt]

I can do a 95 minute movie - 1850 min/2200avg/2350 max VBR-2pass @ high quality with 128kbps audio on two CD's. The quality looks GREAT and the audio sounds good too, most people can't tell the difference between 128 and 384, especially thru most sound systems and/or tv's.

Get FitCD - it's your friend. Lose stuff like the credits.

[PlaiBoi]

I can fit a 90 min. movie onto 2 cds using standard SVCD. Why decrease the audio quality and go out of standards for 5 more min? Just lower the avg. about a 100 and ur set.

p.s. I use a min. of 1200, avg. no less than 2000, max. 2520.

[ya_jai]

the first poster ask about 2 hours movie.

I have ripped so many 2 hours movie into 2 cd in SVCD format with acceptable quality(sources is DVD). Great quality or not depend on your eyes, if you want to fit into 2 cds so you have to compensate with quality, of course and if you really want GREAT QUALITY the you have to stick with DVD.

I encode with TMPGEnc with both CQ and 2 pass VBR at 1900 video bitrate and I can say that my SVCD is look good for me and a lot better than std VCD.