TMPGEnc

[svelectric]

I have recently started to learn TMPGEnc to make SVCD's so I can play them on my DVD player. I am having problems getting the size of the file to fit on one cd. I have been working with one movie file in particular. It is a live concert that was recorded. It seems no matter how low I put the bitrate, it will always make the file 888MB(I have tried between 100 and 950 and the result is the same). I am starting with a 694MB .asf file. I have rate control set to CBR, no filters, and am using joint stereo at 192kbps(let me know if you need more info than that). Please help. Thanks!

[ZeroKool]

By trying to fit it onto one CD you are most likely making it a XSVCD (non-standard SVCD) - to get a file to be small enough to fit onto 1 cd you need to "unlock" the settings and choose Non-standard SVCD in the last tab of the Setting Window. Hope this helps

[wulf109]

Encodeing is time dependant. The size in MB's of your source file doesn't matter,it's the length in time of the file that will determine the correct bitrate for encodeing.

[svelectric]

I was trying to make a regular VCD. I know how to unlock the options such as bitrate and whatnot. The wizard in TMPGEnc says the file will be a certain size, which is way smaller than what comes out. The file is 888MB no matter if I use 100Kbps or 1000Kbps.

[mats.hogberg]

Can't be - There's somthing going wrong here! You should definately not get the same file size when encoding the same source to VCD MPEG in different CBR. It's just not the way it works. And wulf, why should we need bitrate calculators if X minutes of movie always came out as Y MB MPEG ? What counts when determining what bitrate to use is:

• Do I want a standard compliant VCD? Then 1150 video bitrate.
  Do I want to fit X minutes of movie in Y MB? Then grab the bitrate calculator.

/Mats

[banjazzer]

Can't be - There's somthing going wrong here! You should definately not get the same file size when encoding the same source to VCD MPEG in different CBR.

You will if you don't set System>stream type to MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard)

[mats.hogberg]

But then the MPEG will be (forced) encoded at the same bitrate, and thus be of the same size. But you're right - that setting may fool the best

/Mats

[svelectric]

Sorry for my newbyness, but what is it that I should do?

[banjazzer]

Sorry for my newbyness, but what is it that I should do?

You do the opposite of what I said you shouldn't do in my last post!

Set System>stream type to MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard)

This is what you should do

[svelectric]

It appears that is working. Thanks! Do you guys have any recommendations on filters that I might want to use such as noise filter or the motion search precision setting(i'm using high quality slow right now)?

[ZeroKool]

As you are making XVCD anyway by choosing MPEG-1 Video-CD (non-standard) you can try a lot of filters if your PC is fast enough - the more filters applied the longer encoding time required. I personally prefer motion precision search to be set on HIGH and VBR 2pass as these two filters produce good quality output file (depends on the length of movie too though) in 4 hours on my PC (90-100 min movie).