squeezing avi into one vcd

[VanZan]

I have an avi file which is longer than 80mins...is there any way at all that I could squeeze this onto ONE vcd?

[secretagent]

you can easily put over ninety minutes of video by using

[VanZan]

umm Templates? Could you elaborate a little ?

[secretagent]

well there are lots of templates and lots of posts here about them
but for example there are kwag's templates at www.kvcd.net where claims are up to two hours or more on one vcd, and many others just do a search for templates on this site and there are even guides here on this site on how to put a full movie on one vcd.

[VanZan]

the only guide I could find involved doing it from a dvdrip so all the extra information is very confusing for a noob....

[asdf]

what i would do is make an xvcd. go to https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm to figure out how much bitrate to use to fit on 1 cd. then go to tmpgenc and load the proper template (ntsc, pal). then go to load again and in the extra folder, open "unlock." now you can enter the bitrate in "setting". then go to the system tab and choose video-cd (non-standard)

[kuranuk]

There are two ways to go about making a VCD of 80 minutes or greater. You can:

1. Make an XVCD: (a VCD with a nonstandard bitrate)
2. Get >80 minute media.

1. This talk about "templates" falls under category 1. Standard VCDs keep to a bitrate of ~1150kbps video and 224kbps audio. To fit a longer movie on the same amount of space, you need to lower the video or audio bitrate. I usually use 1000kbps and 128kbps audio. Be cautious, however. XVCDs are NOT standard VCD compliant. Their compatibility with your DVD player may vary greatly, you should experiment quite a bit first.

2. It is possible to burn a 90min standard VCD on 90 min. certified media. Again, the compatibility will vary depending on the player.

[Gonadan]

Isn't it true that decreasing the bitrate givesyou a horrible quality?

[kuranuk]

A lower bit rate always means less fidelity, true. And encoding a file that has already been compressed (DiVX or otherwise) is always going to result in lower fidelity. As for "horrible quality," I think you have "re-encoding at a lower bitrate" in mind. Encoding a VCD from a previously encoded VCD is going to look much worse even if the bitrate stays the same.

If you really don't want to go any lower than the standard 1150kbps for video but make the MPEG smaller, you can sacrifice audio for video. Other than that, the difference between 1000kbps and 1150kbps (as long as you don't re-encode from one to the other) isn't tremendously great.