I just ripped Kill Bill Volume 1 from DVD onto my hard drive using AnyDVD to grab the .vob files and all that other stuff, then I used AutoGK to encode it to an XviD .avi file. Anyway, I clicked on the custom output size to be 700MB but when I look at my file on the computer it's 715MB. Why is there 15MB more?
The only thing I can think of that might have made a difference was that I didn't use the predefined size setting of 1 CD (700MB) and used a custom setting set to 700MB, or I used the subtitle 1 track, because sometimes in the movie they talk in Japanese and you have to select the first subtitle track to be able to read what they say, or in the advanced settings I selected the audio output to be VBR MP3 128kbps.
Does anyone know what I did wrong that made the video file come out larger than expected? I wanted it to come out to 700MB so that I could burn it onto a CD-R. Should I set the custom output size lower next time so that I will be safe to be it onto a CD, let's say output of 690MB? Any other advice or suggestions?
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Does anyone know what I did wrong that made the video file come out larger than expected
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The subttle is 90 Kb, so its precent won't affect the final size.
I don't use AutoGK, I use VirtualDubMod. Try using VirtualDubMod (to open VOB sers you need to create a D2V with DVD2AVI(DG) and have the VFAPI Reader codec installed (see or guides).
Third, you'll have to use the VFAPI Reader codec to create a 'pseuso-AVI' from the D2V.
VirtualDubMod bitrate calculator is extremaly precise, and I insert the movie's length with an approximation of 1s. My AVI are 734,000,000 - 734,600,000 bytes.
I use VirtualDubMod because it allows me to load any audio stream I create from the demuxed WAV from the DVD (which has delay =0).
Ah, it will show warnings if you try to insert a MP3 VBR steram with the commend Stream___Stream List --> Add, but it causes A/V unwanted delays only if you re-convert AVI -> mpeg, so using a MP3 VBR is no problem (use HeadAC3h3 loading the WAV, encoding to MP3 and pressing[options>>] twice, choosing the Preset Alt ABR, which puts MP3 VBR).
