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aldaco12
20th September 2005, 17:15
Hi. Probably I'm not understanding the guide, but I found strange , on http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/quenc.htm , the phrase:
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If you haven't calculated the bitrate yet, here's a quick and dirty way how to do it: 9800 - total audio bitrate. As an example if you have 1 2.0 kbit/s AC3 track (192kbit/s), 2 5.1 kbit/s AC3 tracks (384kbit/s each) you'd get to a max bitrate of 9800 - 192 - 2*384 = 8840 kbit/s.
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What? For SVCD, the final purpose is to make a movie, of a determined length, to fit into a 80' CD-R (A MPEG-2 about 830 MB). Just to make a check, a 2500 kbps (in the main screen, I ignored the 2nd screen 'advanced options') a 5' AVI became a 107 MB mpeg!

Now, let's suppose we have a 90' AVI movie. I would like them to fit into 2 80' CD-R.
Therefore, my question is:

1) In this case, can I select a range or do I have to split the big AVI into 2 small 50' files?
2) Is there a sort of algorithm, like the one used by FitCD, which tells you: "if you use QuEnc to encode a 480x480 AVI into a MPEG-2, if the movie's length is L, the maximum bitrate you can set is: B/L" ? (and you'll encode a, say, 830-835 MB MPEG-2 file)

Thanks in advance...

Mug Funky
20th September 2005, 18:48
the guide is assuming DVD is your destination... SVCD can only carry mp2 audio, and 1 track of it IIRC.

max bitrate for SVCD i believe is 2x CDrom speed thats about 2300kbps MAX (that's on the advanced screen). average usually comes to about 900kbps. this is why i don't like SVCD much - either the quality gets bad or you have to flip the disc halfway.

also, SVCD is 48 width, but you probably know this already.

EpheMeroN
20th September 2005, 19:42
Believe it or not I actually know SVCD specs a tad too well. The max bitrate for an SVCD is 2520, but (I think it's Phillips) certain players will b0rk your discs if they're at that bitrate so use 2450 as max and you'll never run into issues. 300 minimum as well will suffice well, and try not to ever go below 1750 for your average bitrate or it'll look really really poor.