Ok, so I have a couple of videos that are in XviD format and each one is a little over 45 min long. Also, they are each 350MB in their current condition. When I go to make a VCD with 2 of them on it (using Nero Vision Express 3), it tells me that combined they are too big (somewhere near 800MB). First of all why is this? Is it the fact that they would run longer than 80 min?
Secondly, I was wondering if it would be possible to reduce the quality of the videos so that they could fit together onto one VCD. Is there anything like DVD Shrink for Xvid's or VCD's? Since they are HD quality right now, I wouldn't mind too much if the quality took a small hit so they would fit.
Basically I just don't wunna have to waste a DVD+R or 2 CD-R's if I can get the job done with 1 CD-R. Let me know what you think.
(Oh, and I apologize if this is in the wrong forum. Now that I think about it it may be more of a VCD question then a XviD one, I just didn't know where else to post it.)
Changing the size of the XviD's would just be a waste of time, since you are only going to re-encode again. The problem indeed is the fact that 2 * 45 > 80min. 90mins would mean 900MB's since VCD is ~10MB/min. There is nothing that you can do since VCD uses set bitrates for video and audio. You could lower the bitrate, but then it wouldn't be VCD.
Only 3 solutions I can think of.
1. Forget about VCD and create an XVCD.
2. Trim 10mins or so total from the two files.
3. Use a 90min CDR.
Thanks for the suggestions! I can't go with the XVCD option, though, because my DVD player doesn't support it. I'll prolly just go out and buy some 90 min CD-R's if I can find some on sale. Thanks again.
