Another strange occurance!

[Turk]

Downloaded a DVD.SCREENER.XviD movie, which came in two parts.
Using WinRaR to unarchived each part, I end up with two AVI files
totalling a little over 700MB each. Running each file thru VirturalDUB,
it shows the movie as being a NTSCfilm (23.976), and a running time
of a little over a hour each.

Using TMPGEnc v2.58.44.152 to encode the movie to SVCD, I go thru
all the steps that I've used before, but I end up with Bitrate settings
that are impossible to understand.

Proposed medium of an 80min CD-R shows a file size of 3.4GB, and
a movie running time of 169min. Using the default Avg. video bitrate
of 2520, uses 431% of the CD-R. Which I'm sure you know is impossible.
Lowering the percentage to my normal 99.98%/786MB, shows a bitrate
of 412. Which again is unacceptable. Figures for part two are about the
same.

Any ideas what may be going on? And of course a solution!

TIA

[Turk]

Since I haven't received any replies, I thought I'd try and help myself.
I decided to try and burn a portion of the movie and see what it looked
like. Granted the bitrate was only 400, but maybe the readings were
just wrong, and it didn't make a difference in the quality.

As soon as I finished the last setting and browsed to a directory to store
the mpg, I hit OK. It immediately crashed and closed TMPGEnc. Now I
am using the latest version, but prior to this I never had a problem with
an older version I was using.

Could the problem be software?

TIA for any help!

[bugster]

look here:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=119019

and maybe other guides too.

[Turk]

look here:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=119019 ...

Bugster this looks like its going to work!
The file size is down to something normal.
I saw this guide, but I didn't think it would
take care of the file size prob I was having.

Thanks to you for pointing it out to me, and
to O Kewl for writing it.