Hi! I'm definitly a newbie and I'm trying to convert a 700MB avi file to VCD so I can play it on my regular DVD player, but I used TMPGEnc (as the guide here said) to encode it and it resulted on a huge 2000MB file, I can't fit that into one CD and I would prefer having it in only one CD than having to split it and then change CDs by half of the movie... So, if anyone could answer these questions or help me in anyway, I would really appreciate it... 1. Can I burn VCDs with my CD-RW? 2. Are VCD burnt in regular CDs? 3. How could I burn this 700MB avi file in only one CD? THANKS YOU GUYS...
im having this exact problem as well, but this board, no one even replies to us. i converted a avi that was 650 mb, and it turned to be like 1.9 GB after using tmpgenc. i dont know whats going on.
1. A VCD can be burned on a CD-RW. 2. VCDs are meant to be burned on CDs, Video Compact Disc. 3. You cannot burn a 700MB AVI on to one CD that will play on a typical DVD player, your best bet would be to go buy a DVD player that plays DivX. A 700MB AVI will not fit on a single CD, when you are done encoding and authoring the file will be over 4GIG.
avi is better compresion than mpeg i mean like size wise, so if u have a 700 mb avi file when u convert it to mpeg for vcd (cuz vcd uses mpeg only) then it becomes very large so u cannot reencode tht 700 mb avi file, your best bet is to stop wasting time on vcd's and go buy a dvd burner for like 80 bucks for good ones
I will answer quickley The size of the file dosn't metter what metters is the duration of the movie in a 700 mb disc you can store 78-80 minutes of movie if your file is longer, you should split it.
A typical good quality hour and a half AVI movie is around 750MB. If you get a 750MB movie to fit on a single CD the quality will not be the greatest.
From the TMPGenc wizard "approximately 70' of movie can be contained into a standard 650 MB CD". VCD movies are 352x240 pixels (instead of, sometime, 620x460 AVIs) and are NOT large at all (maybe you have to split the movie into 2 but nothing else! 140' are well enough). Are you sure you choosed the right setting in the TMPGenc wizard? Or you choosed DVD format instead of VCD format?
thats because the same question kept mushrooming every day it rain, and it rains everyday here i really think that depends on the movie, i heard madmax is one of the difficult ones to encode. dust is not a very easy thing to encode, so does mist, underwater and can't remember right now. 700MB is like the universal target so you can put it on a cd
I also dont have a DVD burner or a player that plays DivX, so I need to have movies in VCD or SVCD format. For me the simplest is to convert the avi to VCD/SVCD using cucusoft - it has an option to split the file every xxxMB (depends whether you are using 650 or 700mb CD's) - after that I burn it to 2 discs. For me it is easier than trying to compress it onto 1 disc.
