95m movie svcd encode ended up with 2GB+ HELP!!

[phuntyme]

I thought I was smart and wanted to encode a 95 minute movie onto 2 SVCD disks... The end result is a 2GB+ file. and spliting the movies into 48:15.86 for the first disk, ended up with a 1.08GB file... ofcourse this wouldn't fit onto a 80m CD.

I used the standard template for a NTSC FILM SVCD thats included with TMPGenc 2.x & 2.5. Audio bitrate is reduced to 128K the second time around to see if I can reduce the file size.

I'm playing with different resolutions, bit rates that conforms to Extended SVCD format... but I don't think I can still reduce the size enough. I am currently testing VBR encoding with it. Is there anything else I can do with TMPGENC to reduce the size? More passes?

[johnvick]

Go to www.vcdhelp.com
go to links
select the link to Millenium Bug's site.
All is explained here. I can easily get 90 minutes on one 80 minute CDR with acceptable quality.

[phuntyme]

I'll have a look there...

haha I was trying to do a VBR 2 pass with TMPGENC... and it was going to take 70+ HOURS!!! I let it run for like 10hours to see if it'll reduce the time it takes (I had noise reduction on). No luck. I don't think I'll play with that anymore.