Adjusting mins. on Bit rate tab?

When I go to change the minutes lets say to 140 mins. from 125 mins. for 2-80 min. Cdr's... DVD2SVCD still makes 3 bin/cue files? I'm not sure why it is doing this. I was of the understanding that 70 mins. of svcd video/audio could be placed on a 80 min. cdr? Any help here would greatly be appreciated. Thanks all. Will

first off you posted in the wrong forum...all problems go to the basic section...but since your a n00b ill forgive you for that :) secondly, you need to post your log file. we have no ideas what settings your are using. one possibility for your error is that you're using tmpge to encode your video and this is a known issue for tmpge (sometimes it makes the files too big)..... but other than that we need to see your logfile before you can expect to get some help.

Thanks for the reply. Well I'm not using TMPG it is way to slow. I'm using CCE 2.50, but I'll try it again and paste my log. Maybe the bitrate tab thinks i'm using 74 min. cdr's. My understanding of the bitrate settings is it is basically telling you to use 80 min. cdr's with this much time or 74 min. with this much time? But I could be wrong about this. Thanks Will

Moved to basics forum. Actually how many minutes depends on what bitrate you use, but most here would agree any more then 40 or so on one disc and the bitrate will fall so low that video starts to look poor. If you want more then that go for a VCD instead of a SVCD. It very well could be that based on your settings DVD2SVCD just could not place what you set for the bitrate on 2 cd's. Did you check Min Avg? If you did uncheck it. If you used 1 pass VBR there is a known issue with that and cd sizes. Whenever you have an issue always post your DVD2SVCD_Log.txt file using cut and paste. We can tell allot from that file that trying to explain just doesn't do. We really can't help much without that log. Mark

markrb: I have in fact read the stickies and I know that more than 700mb can fit on a 80 min. cdr.It was just with this last encode I did with Cats & Dogs using tmpg I set it for 2 80 min cdrs at 86 min. Since this was so short I had to change the 3rd line to 800 from 740. When the svcd process completed & I went to burn.. according to Nero I had 717mb on the second disc (actually it was bigger than this I realize). I had to enable over burn. I take the muxed files and vcd template everything I do. Maybe I just have something messed up. I have just tried doing a 103 min movie using cce vbr 5 pass image quality set at 22. It made 3 muxed files or would of made 3 cue/bin files if I would of had that enabled. I simply changed the the 4th line on the bitrate to 103 min instead of 125. Possibly this is the wrong procedure? Thanks for the info I'll try setting the image quality as high as 25. I'm probably to much of a novice to do anything with the max min & max ave.settings. However someone suggested using the cvd settings and and increasing the min. max. and max average.. the image quality i got was awfull the max average staid at around 2000. The bit rate changes when i change the amount of min. of course so I was assuming changing the min would change my image quality without making more cue/bin files. Thanks Will

For Windtalkers that says it was 134 I would have left the 5th line alone that says from 125-163 use 3 cd's. I would have only changed the 740 to 800. By changing it to 134 exactly if the movie is 134 and 1 second it will jump to the next section. Most likely the movie is really like 138 to 140 since many times don't include the credits etc... Always give yourself at least 5 minutes more then the stated time so it won't jump. Putting that long a movie on 2 discs will give you poor results IMO, but some say it's fine. That bitrate for 2 discs was under 1400 for a 134 minute movie, way to low. Mark