When i'm trying to convert an .avi file to .mpeg using tmpgenc the length of the movie is dubbeled and it has a disk capacity of 244%. when i'm trying to manually ajust the disk capacity to 97% it doesn't get any lower then 121%. how can i solve this problem?
Sorry. A MPEG-1 is 10 MB x minute of the movie long (a MPEG-2 even bigger) and therefore a movie always must be split into 2 CD-R (unless it is very short) using, for instance, TMPGenc 'select range' twice (0 ---> F for CD1 and F+1 ---> end for CD2) or TMPGenc's MPEG Tools___Merge & Cut (again: 0---F for Movie-CD1.MPG and F+1---> end for Movie-CD2.MPG).
This is the reason for which AVI format, even if it's lossy, is used to export movies.
You can try to make a KVCD movie (read http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/124272 to learn more). It is smaller and has a slightly worse quality (see http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/126073), but it is declered " 120' on one CD-R " and therefore 1 movie = 1 CD-R.
It's a little more complicated (1: use TMPGenc 2.5, not XPress, copying the KVCD templates you'll find on their site; 2: create the M1V , the 'mute' KVCD output, 3: add the sound by multiplexing the movie Type = Video-CD Non Standard)to a mpeg-version of the same movie), but it works.
