question about fitcd

[qwop]

I'm doing a little experimenting with bitrates and how fitcd works and I seem to have a problem. My movie is 101 min 31 sec long and I selected 3 cd's at 80 minutes each with an audio bitrate of 160. FitCD gives me a max bitrate value of 2584 a min bitrate of 1213 and the value at the top left (video stream) it gives a value of 3076. So my question is what value do I put in for the average bitrate. I thought the 3076 value was supposed to be the avg bitrate but obviously it cant be if the max is 2584. I'm encoding it in 4 pass vbr mode in cce. Can someone please help

[qwop]

can anyone help?

[Baldrick]

If you use 3076 it will fit exactly on 3 80 min cds but the max svcd bitrate is 2584. You must use the max svcd bitrate or else it wont be svcd but then you will get 2 full CDs and 1 CD with only some few MBs on it. Try to choose 2 80 min cd and see what bitrate you get.

[qwop]

hmmm I'm a little confused you say that if I use 3076 as the bitrate it will fit on 3 80 min cd's, but do I enter that value in the max or avg setting in cce, if avg than what do i use for the max value. Btw thanks for the response and also my dvd player has no problem playing bitrates higher than standard.

[fantomlord]

basically, if you choose 3076, the file size will be such that the movie will fit on 3 CDs, and fill them all to capacity, however, your file will be non standard SVCD since the max bitrate for SVCD is 2584. Try telling fitcd to use 2x80min CD's, and see how much of a difference there will be in bitrate--that will probably get you good enough quality, use only 2 CD's, and you can keep within standards.
hope that clears things up.