How to fix the output to DVD size? Easy way possible?

[masteroftheunivers]

Hello,

the last recodes are a bunch of try an error.
I used handbreak with a bitrate calculator to narrow down the output filesize but in the most cases the codes (HEVC) does its own thing an is sometimes to big or way to low.

My rig ist not the strongest one with FX8320 a two pass recodewith around 5000kbs can easily take around 8 - 12 hours.

My question, is there a tool which can predict the codecs outcome more prissily?
For example, MeGUI supports a function that "Shrinks" any kind of input format to the specific size of an DVD (5 or 9)
but sadly its the old x264 codec ......

Best regards
Masteroftheunivers

[sneaker_ger]

Did you calculate with bitrate for audio tracks and container overhead? You should also leave some extra safety room (e.g. 3-5%), these things are never 100% precise.

You may also want to try VidCoder. It's based on HandBrake but has a "Target Size" option that takes audio tracks into account so you don't have to manually calculate.

[masteroftheunivers]

Did you calculate with bitrate for audio tracks and container overhead? You should also leave some extra safety room (e.g. 3-5%), these things are never 100% precise.

You may also want to try VidCoder. It's based on HandBrake but has a "Target Size" option that takes audio tracks into account so you don't have to manually calculate.

I demuxed my video file completely. For me its easier to fit the video stream size to the Audio. If its a Hd track then its realy big and a down conversion to ac3 is necessary.

The overhead is build in @ the bitrate calculater (MeGUI)
I thought it would be nice if a tool would analyse the container an then decides, what bitrate an audio bitrate (format) is suitable to accomplish a fixed filesize like a DVD5 or DVD9

thanks for the tipp with Vidcoder i will look into it !

[MeteorRain]

Divide your file size by the duration and you get the bitrate (in KB/s, which converts to 8x kbps).