more than 1 hr 22 min on cd?

[e-z-e]

can you fit more than 1 hr 22 min. of video on an 80 min cd (by changing no standard settings except lowering bitrate) ? i used the bitrate calc on this page to try to make a 1 hr 51 min movie fit on one cd but the file was over a gig...lol

[puertorican138]

Yes, you can burn over 82 minutes on a CD-R. Some people on this board have even burnt up to 2 hours and 30 minutes on 1 CD-R!!!

[EddyH]

Cha, that's nothing. I managed two hours fifty.... Just use variable bit rate. Or if you have a tempramental DVD/VCD player and a movie that's under 99 minutes, just get yourself some 90 or 99 minute discs...

Oh yeah, and in a bit to be classified clinically insane, I just got a 119 minutes movie.....

-onto an 8cm VCD-

....burnt to 21m30. Commit me now

Well if you discount the mono sound and the occasional four or five slushy frames at random places, it's still kinda "watchable"... quality even gets better than CBR VCD at points... and it's at least as good as my brother's minimum-quality max-speed VCDs Ah the joy of CQ. I certainly can't let that encoding method go now, not when I can put a whole film onto a miniCD and it doesn't look a -total- mess.

320x192 inside of a PAL frame (just big enough to always stay horizontally overscanned), CQ 24 with 0,4,24 spoilage, min 72k max 2400, nice clean divx source, no sharpening (hey i'm not Murdock after all), 56kbit mono sound lowpassed at 12khz. Maximum quality settings in all other areas. w00t.
Give it a try sometime