Calculate muxed size?

[cow]

Given an MP2 and an M2V file, does anyone know how I could calculate the size of the final muxed MPG file without actually doing it? I just want to get the size so I can tweak the average VBR in CCE's advanced window (792mb - mpg_size + m2v_size). Or if there's a better way of doing this, let me know. :)

[adam]

Well the overhead for svcds is usually around 10MB's and for vcds its about 5MB's so just add that to your video and audio streams sizes. Bbmpeg's svcds are slightly larger than TMPGenc's because it adds svcd scan offets.

I would recommend getting fitcd and using it as your bitrate calculator. It will allow you to factor in multiplexing overhead, including the added size needed from svcd scan offsets, when determining bitrate.

[cow]

Thanks for the tip! I've been using DVTool, and it left a lot of room on the disc so I had to tweak it after CCE's first pass. But it looks like FitCD does excellent job at calculating the bitrate so I guess I can skip that extra step. :)