2 hour movie on 1 74 min cd?

[zwyx2k]

is there a possible way to make a 2 hour movie fit on 1 74 min cd i just have on cd left and i have art of war which is 1 hour and 53 min long. Could you post settings on tmpg and how to burn it? i dont care about the quality i just want to get it burned

[Kdiddy]

Use the bitrate calculator from this website to figure out your needed bitrate for 1 CD...but the quality is going to be quite poor....so why are you even wasting the time?

[bozoka45]

Burn it as a VCD, it will fit. I fit most of my movies on 80 minute CD's, and alot are good DVD Quality.

[Kdiddy]

Bozoka..I really doubt you got DVD quality in VCD format on one CD of a typical 1.5+ hour plus movie....even with your audio set for 128, to fit that on 1 CD, you video would be less than 1 kbit/s...and VCD standard is 1.15Kbit/s...so Im sorry, that is not even close to DVD quality

[orbit7]

bozoka, please dont post ignorant messages such as below, you are giving newbies a false idea of vcd quality. Read the specs of a DVD (quality that is) then come back with knowledge at hand. you will never acheive dvd quality with vcd compliant cds. SVCD will come close but the difference in bitrate / res will always handicap the final mpeg.

[kinneera]

You didn't really say what the intended use of this disc would be, so... if it's only for computer playback, you could encode it as a Divx. The format is generally used to do just what you are trying to do.

[zwyx2k]

im gonna play it in my pioneer dv-343

[Vejita-sama]

I think you'll be REALLY disappointed in the play back if you put it on one disc. I would use two. That would double you're bitrate (from ~600kbit/s to 1200kbit/s), if you then encoded with TMPGenc 2pass VBR or CCE multipass the final picture should be 'pretty good.'

Now you said you have this movie (I'll assume on DVD) so what I would do is rip it and then encode it latter when you have more discs.

Since you say you don't care thou, here's what you do (assume you know how to prep DVD already):

1) Run a bitrate calculator (look under the Tools link on the left), enter the movie runtime, audio quaility (I would use 128 or 96, cause the video quaility will to pretty low here, normally use 224 or 192), and number of CDRs.
This will give you the ave bitrate to use.

2) Run TMPGenc, load the VCD template. Then load the 'unlock' template (should in be the .../templates/extra dir). This will'unlocked' all the greyed out areas from the Standard VCD Template.

3) Under motion search set it 'high' and under encode, either use:
CBR set bitrate from calculator
2pass VBR set min=300, max=2500, ave=from calculator

2pass VBR will give better results but take twice as long to encode.

From there just setup everything like you would a normal encode.

[Gen-X-Criminals]

i think it's possible, cause i have bought some movie from china on cd-r, and it says on the cover DVCD=double vcd, and one typical movie on 1 cd, quality is same as typical vcd, but i don't know the way to do it yet, if somebody know, send me email to leishi85@hotmail.com

[Mack]

this can be easily done, but you will take a quality hit. firstly u can use lvcd template with tempenc, set bitrate at 650, audio at 128. secondly u can use sefy's SeVCD template, change your quality setting (cq_vbr) to about 60, audio at 112. i know it can be done, i have done it several times. u do take a quality hit, but sometimes i dont sweat it too much. if i wanted dvds, id buy dvds. easy way to calculate is to encode 1 minute of video, stop it, check file size and multiply by length of movie.

[adam]

Gen-X-Criminals: A DVCD is just a regularly encoded vcd but burnt on a high capacity media like a 99 min cdr.

[VidGuy]

I have done a 110 minute movie on 1 CD creating an XSVCD thingy - Basically 936 bitrate VBR Mpeg1 352 x 240 using CCE - then burning with Nero as an SVCD (Yes, an SVCD, not a non-compliant VCD). Burning it as a VCD played in my Apex player, but not my Pioneer. Burning it as an SVCD played in both. I believe I used 750 as the low and 1350 as the high bitrate. This was a black and white movie - the Maltese Falcon, and it looked pretty decent (about as good as a VHS tape). I've found the VBR Mpeg1 works and looks MUCH better at the lower bitrates than MPeg2 encoded either with CCE or TMPGEnc....

[SiNXation]

Basically you can just go get Sefy's settings and play around with them. The most I was able to put on a vcd without any qaulity lost is 128 min (2 hrs, 8mins). The only reason why longest movie I got on vcd is becuase its the longest movie I have so far . I guess I can always go get titanic and convert that but I really wouldn't waste a 10 cent cd on that crap.