The size is to big

[Bull]

This is the first time I try the 5.0 Pro codec, I followed the Virtual Dub encoding guide. The movie is 24min long and I set the size to 200mb with No Sound. I figured bitrate to 1137 Kbit/s.
The guide set to youse 2-pass, so I named the first 01 and the second 02. I should end up with a file on 200mb (as I set earlyer)...file 01 243mb - file 02 is 438mb, non of them the size that I set them to.

What am I doing wrong?

[BlueRed]

Originally posted by Bull
What am I doing wrong?

You are not posting details, just facts. What settings have you used, whole encoding procedures, os, installed codecs/software etc...
No one here will answer such a post, most users dont even bother to...
We're not wizards, so we cant guess what you did.

Cheers,
Blue

[Bull]

I used the DivX 5 guide -> encode
http://www.doom9.org/divx5-vdub.htm

DivX 5.0 Pro

What more do you what to know?

[theReal]

you set the audio to "direct stream copy" which interleaves uncompressed PCM audio into your avi-files. The audio is 24min, so it's about 240MB. This is why you get a first pass avi of about this size, it's 0MB dummy-video + 240MB Audio.
The second avi is the final avi, which is 200MB video + 240MB Audio = 440MB.

You have to take the audio into account when calculating sizes and bitrates :)

[Acaila]

The same happens when you forget to put audio settings on "no audio". By default VDub uses full processing for the audio, and because the first codec in the list for audio encoding is "Uncompressed PCM" you'll get the same effect as a direct stream copy.

[theReal]

By default VDub uses full processing for the audioWhen I open an avi file, VDub 1.4.7 sets full processing for the video and direct stream copy for the audio as default.
However, I think we agree that Bull did not set the audio to "no audio" :)

[Hanty]

I wouldn't recommend adding the video in vdub during the actual passes. I'd say you'd be much better off processing audio in other programs and just using vdub to mux the files as the very last step.

[theReal]

...unless you're compressing the audio with the Fraunhofer codec. Then VDub is one of the only programs which corrects the bitrate to keep the audio in sync (the Fraunhofer codec reports a slightly other bitrate than what it actually encodes - so 112kbit is actually 111kbit and 128kbit is actually 127kbit.

But of course I'd also compress the video first, see if it's ok, then add the audio.