Hi everyone....
It occurs to me that I have never seen anywhere anybody mention about making VCDs using MPEG1 in VBR mode. Variable bitrate is not part of the MPEG1 standard, but TMPG will quite happily encode this way if you tell it to. I have been using it this way for a long time and am very pleased with the result. I can easily fit a 2-hour movie on one CD which plays on most DVD players. The best I've managed so far is the whole Woodstock movie on one CD, which is 2 hours 57 minutes. It's a tiny bit fuzzy, but still quite watchable. I have even tried higher resolutions up to 720x576. This works fine and the picture is great, but some DVD players go wobbly if you feed it to them.
So, is nobody else using MPEG1 VBR, or are they just not saying anything? As far as I'm concerned, it's so good I don't bother using anything else. If anybody wants to know more about how I do it, you could email me, or maybe I could write a sort of guide about it.
Cheers,
Bernie
It occurs to me that I have never seen anywhere anybody mention about making VCDs using MPEG1 in VBR mode. Variable bitrate is not part of the MPEG1 standard, but TMPG will quite happily encode this way if you tell it to. I have been using it this way for a long time and am very pleased with the result. I can easily fit a 2-hour movie on one CD which plays on most DVD players. The best I've managed so far is the whole Woodstock movie on one CD, which is 2 hours 57 minutes. It's a tiny bit fuzzy, but still quite watchable. I have even tried higher resolutions up to 720x576. This works fine and the picture is great, but some DVD players go wobbly if you feed it to them.
So, is nobody else using MPEG1 VBR, or are they just not saying anything? As far as I'm concerned, it's so good I don't bother using anything else. If anybody wants to know more about how I do it, you could email me, or maybe I could write a sort of guide about it.
Cheers,
Bernie