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warthawg
26th February 2002, 16:50
The last 4 or 5 movies i have encoded seem to have a last CD that is too large, usually by about 5MB. Oddly, I didnt have this problem with earlier versions (previous to BeSweet, not that i think that Besweet is the problem). I'm just wondering if there's anything that perhaps I should be setting differently on the bitrate tab?

I'm using a Max Bitrate of 2499, Min 300, Max Average 2350.

The use of subs doesnt seem to make a difference, I've tried both ways, and still the last disc is too long (usually 10 - 30 seconds). I realize this isnt MAJORLY too big, but i like to keep it under the 79.59 marker, and had always achieved this before.

Granted, I could always switch to an old version, but whats the fun in that right? :) Just wondering if the calculation methods have been changed internally at all, or if its more likely I have done something differently to cause this to happen.

Let me know if you need me to post a log.

Thanks in advance for any help! You guys are great!

gerti67
26th February 2002, 17:01
Hi warthawg,

this can happen sometimes and it is not that bad as there are almost always only a few seconds of the credits cut off. I think lowering the Max. avg bitrate a little bit can help as the new default is 2230 kb/sec.

So you could try to set 2300 for example or you can set 795MB for the CD sizes so that you are on the safe side with future conversions as you can set them to 800MB afterwards and do a crash recovery from the muxing and cutting step so that the additional 5MB or so will then fit again on 2 CDs for example.

Greetings,
Gerti

warthawg
26th February 2002, 17:10
Ok great :) I never even noticed i could manually change the CD size, i just used the values in the pulldowns DOH!

Thanks for the suggestion, i think that will take care of it :)