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Overburning

Discussion in 'MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding (AVI to DVD)' started by jakks, Mar 28, 2004.

  1. jakks

    jakks Regular member

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    OK, I ve just made a VCD, but the file is 808mb, I know that you can fit 800mb on a cd, but what is the average space you can gain my overburning....

    PS. I've checked vcdhelp and it says my burner is able to overburn.
     
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    whassup Regular member

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    Is that 808 MB for the video only or does also include the headroom? (add a few MB) for that.

    Actually, 805MB can fit on a 800 MB CD. For a lot of CD's, you can go as far as 810-815 MB but it's more trial and error. (Depends on the media.)
     
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    oh yeah, i have question about that too. can u burn more files to a vcd? because i borrowed this movie from my fwend and it's vcd, and the movie lasted for two hours. does anyone else know how to do that?
     
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    and the quality and sounds is still pretty good..is that possible?
     
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    That is a pretty subjective statement.

    Yes, it is possible. As long as the source is extremely high quality (e.g. DVD), you can get a "watchable" VCD. How to do it? You have to play with the advanced settings.

    Go to http://www.dvdrhelp.com for some pre-made templates that purport to do this.

    Mind you, you can get up to 99 min blanks so that helps a lot too.
     

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