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traragorn
12th August 2002, 12:28
i converted a three vcd movieorginal [lord of the rings] into one mpeg (which is 1.59 gb)I heard a cd can take 800 mb of video data so i can burn it in two cd's in vcd mode.

After i looked at tmpeg's conversion time (8 hour 30 min.)i decided to make it divx.[i hatre waiting that much,divx should be OK at most 5 hours when look at my previous encodings]I currently have divx 5.02 bundle and lame codec in vdub.(i know it contains many bugs but last time i encoded Saving Private Ryan to one cd with it and i think its Ok for me,i dont wanna do seperate encoding.).

Now can you suggest me what divx bitrate and mp3 properties would fit it in 2 cd's?i tried a lot but i cant get an exact solution.I am using all of the Mpeg4 settings on,psycovisual and the other one (i cant remember its name)are on.should this be changed to achive better quality?
movie is 352*288 and 163 mins.as every vcd...

and one last note:can it be put in one cd ???at what settings???

DJ Bobo
12th August 2002, 12:39
wow wow wow! wait a sec man, wait a sec!
If you have the movie on 3 CDs already in VCD format, just join them together, cut them into 2 halfs and burn them onto 2 CDs, all that won't even take 30 minutes! (including burning time ¬.¬) The tools you might need are VCD Gear & TMPG (File -> MPEG Tools)

Make a small visit to www.vcdhelp.com und read some guides here btw.

And another thing, recompressing to DivX will make quality only worse, so keep the movie in its original VCD format.

traragorn
12th August 2002, 13:11
as i am not sure it would fit in two cd's without re-encoding to mpeg i'd prefer divx ...so anyone plz suggest settings to fit it two cd with good qulity...

manono
12th August 2002, 14:42
Hi-

It already has lousy quality-it's a VCD at 352x288. Reencoding will make it worse quality. Throw it in the trash and get the DVD. Around here we take pride in making good encodings. We don't put SPR or LOTR on 1 CD.

traragorn
12th August 2002, 15:51
very proud for you :)

but i am not as good as you.and i dont have much money much time and good pc plus i dont have dvd player or dvd-rom drive in my computer i am just a regular guy who is trying to make a little archive...

keep your quality rippings goin' on ... the world needs you :)
:rolleyes: