Downsizing SVCD

[mzm]

First of all I would like to say that I hate movies in Xvid format! They are nothing but trouble to convert to svcd in the first place.

Now I wonder if someone could help me. I downloaded 'Insomnia' in xvid format and cd 1 is 103 mins. Now I have tried to encode with tmpgenc and set it to fit it on a 90min cd. usually tmpgenc does fit movies to the size i specify, however with this cd it just won't budge.....it keeps giving me a file that is 1.03gb and i hv tried to encode this same cd 3 times already.

I managed to fit cd2 on a 90 min nicely. I downsized that to 949mb.

anyone got any ideas how i could fit this mpg of 1.03gb that i now have after conversion on a 90 min cd? I would not like to convert this the fourth time..........

P.S. i could always split cd1 in two but that would only give me two cd'2 of 30mins each for cd1 and that aint no good.

[fantomlord]

what about demux, reencode audio to lower bitrate(192 or less should be fine), and remux.

[mzm]

how do you remux? i already hv sound at 192.....

[fantomlord]

in TMPG, under MPGEtools
I'm not sure I'd go lower than 192, though
128 might be ok...never tried that low before

[wulf109]

down codeing the audio will not reduce the file small enough to fit on a 90min. CDR. I think your only chance is to transcode the audio to a 128 bitrate and burn on a 99min. CDR.