Hello everyone! I am having problem encoding a movie I made with Pinnacle Studio to XviD format using ffdshow. The movie is total 3 hours and 50 minutes (230 minutes total), I wanna encode it to 720x576 pixels and burn it to DVD5 4.7GB. As much as I know, in order to choose the exact file size I want, I need to choose 2 passes encode and in the size section (which is in kilobytes) I need to choose the target file's size I want, which should be as much as I know 4529152 KB (4483MB [4590592 KB] DVD size - 60MB [61440 KB] of the music). The problem is that when I try to put this on the size, it turns into red color and doesn't allow me to continue.. what am I doing wrong?
Never used ffdshow to do a conversion(at least not by itself, used with other programs/GUi). What for mat is the video from Pinnacle?
there is no specific format, it's mostly pictures in high resolution and few video clips in 640x480 uncompressed..
AFAIK, ffdshow is used as a decoder for playback..IOW, it's not used to encode, by it'self..I don't use Pinnacle, but see if it lets you set the kbit/s and use a lower bitrate..A 3hr 50 min. clip needs ~2400kbit/s for video and 224kbit/s for audio in order to fit a DVD-5(4.37GB) disc..
FFDshow can be used by some applications to encode as well(I had Nero Vision use it just to see if it would hardcode subtitles).Not sure why cannot set the desire target, it should be able to automatically lower the bitrate to hit the size target.
It does let me change the bitrate, and it does fit the disc. but my problem is that the file is too small, not too big.. Instead of total file of 4.4GB, it gets to maximum of 2.1 to 2.6GB on a bitrate between 2000-2500kbits. I hope it's more clear now..
Most standalone players can't play an xvid avi file if it's more than 2GB. Of course, if you convert it to DVD, this restriction doesn't apply.
