i need smaller audio file

[johneboy]

Hey guys..
Ran Willy Wonka through DVD2SVCD last night, and despite the fact that i have 1 CD set for all movie lengths (willy wonka is 100min) it came out as 2 mpg's. Now the secong MPG was only 8MB. So there is no way im going to make this a 2 CD set, with the second CD being only 8MB.
I decided to change the audio bitrate from 112 stereo to 96 mono.
The 112/stereo mp2 file was 81MB.. figured this conversion would save me the 10MB needed to fit this all onto one CD.
HOWEVER.. when i awoke this morning.. i found that when it was done converting... my resulting file was 140MB!!! WTF!
why was the 96/mono file larger then 112/stereo!?


also... there is a documentary on the wonka DVD.. i would like to convert this to a 1 CD XSVCD.. however.. the 1 GB VOB i thought it was in, turned out to be most of it, but the last 5-10 min or so were cut off.. and i was unable to locate this in the other VOBs?

[Tommyknocker]

Maybe this guide can help you.

[johneboy]

Maybe this guide can help you.

no... i just need to know why a 112/stereo file converted to a 96/mono file would be almost twice as large

[Tommyknocker]

Dunno.

[johneboy]

Just incase the size of these audio files might help someone figure out whats going on...

the original mp2 file from dvd2svcd is 81MB = 112kbps/stereo 44.1k
then i ran it thru besweet.. came to 140MB = 96kbps/mono 44.1k



did i do something wrong here?
should a 100 Min 96kbps/mono MP2 be 140MB ??

[0 kewl]

Try 96kbps stereo.

[johneboy]

Try 96kbps stereo.

at this point i will try anything..
but are you saying stereo files result in less file size then mono?

[0 kewl]

I said try, who knows - might be the solution.
I would run your original through DVD2SVCD again to get 96kbps stereo though (not MP2 you got now through BeSweet), since i suspect it is because of BeSweet that your 96kbps mono is so large.

[johneboy]

i do really appreiciate the help..
however i thought that DVD2SVCD encodes the audio with besweet?

anyway... since the encode process takes FOREVER on my computer
i will prob just go see if i can pick up a 90 Min CDR.. then burn to that..
if not.. maybe i will try re-sampling at 32K instead of 44.1k.. perhaps that will save me some file size