Movie Conversion Question

[soma]

I downloaded The Lion King DVD rip - on a 56k which took me about a week to do. I wanted to convert it to VCD format to watch on a stand alone DVD player, however It won't work. I have Nero and when I try to convert it I get an error message and my blank CD ejects. The cd is empty. The file was originally 719,076 kb and well over the eighty minute mark which meant I could'nt overburn. I used Virtual Dub and deleted the credits which brought it to 83 minutes and 1 second (I'm guessing this MAY fit on an 80 minute CD). The file is now 682,758 kb. I would like to fit it on 1 cd, but the conversion part in Nero won't work for this file. I will give you the specs:
The type of file says Video Clip - usually it would say Mpeg or avi but this says Video Clip.
Width = 560
Height = 288
Duration = 123:01
Bit Rate = 121 kbps
Audio Format = MPEG layer-3
Frame rate = 29 frames/second
Data Rate = 137 kbps
Video Sample Size = 24 bit
Video Compression = DivX codec
ok.... now before u say to try and convert it to a different format which is what I'm assuming is the problem I tried. I used TMPEG encoder which came with the Virtual Dub bundle thingy I downoaded to convert it to .avi. This aroused a problem. I was only at 21% and the file was already over 500,000kb which meant when it was finished it would be well over 2 million kb. That's ENTIRELY too large to fit on 1 cd or even 2. My question is how do I convert this file to a VCD format and possibly on 1 disc - if not one disc then 2, but preferably 1. Thank you for your time in reading this long, boring problem, but this is for my daughter and it took me quite a while to do.
ThanX

[danne]

Go and have a look at this page. It will definitly answer your questions better than I can

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/sefy/?id=ClassicalGuide.html

[davinda]

I just went to above mentioned site to get the knowledge, bloody hell is it worth it, much rather spend a tenner at MVC and a lot easier.

[Yanks0826]

Originally posted by davinda@11 February 2003 - 15:34
I just went to above mentioned site to get the knowledge, bloody hell is it worth it, much rather spend a tenner at MVC and a lot easier.

No $hit, it would take 9 million days to do that or you can go to a store and buy it for 10 bucks!

[danne]

Now, where'd this world be if everyone took the easy road eh ?

[Yanks0826]

Originally posted by danne@11 February 2003 - 16:15
Now, where'd this world be if everyone took the easy road eh ?

We would be some bored people!

[vivitron 15]

Thread

I had this prob before...try looking at this thread

[Nightwolf]

Personally I like to use TMPGenc to split movies into two equal parts, then I burn them with Nero. Supposedly you can also change the bitrate and some other settings with TMPGenc to make a large file fit on one VCD, but I've never tried it.

[soma]

I checked out the thread and I even ATTEMPTED to check out the web page...however, neither would offer anything to help, at least not that I saw. Maybe I should have been a little bit more clear on my question.I have the file down to the size already to fit on 1 disc - 83:01. This should fit on an 80 min disc w/overburning. My problem is this particular file will NOT convert to VCD format in Nero so I can watch it on a stand alone DVD player. The type of file says Video Clip, but in TMPEG encoder (which I downloaded the latest version from the thread) it says .avi. Now Nero says it can convert .avi to VCD format which I've done before with music videos, but this file will not convert. Could anybody tell me what to use to convert it to VCD format to fit on 1 disc - or even 2.
PLEASE ........ much thanx

[Skillian]

Nero can convert avi files but not divx avi - which is probably what your file is.

You need virtualdub to extrat the audio and turn it into a wav file. Then use TMPGEnc, selct the original video as the video source and the wav you made in virtualdub as the audiosource.

Not too complicated step-by-step guide can be found here.

ps - overburning might make it a little hard to read on your DVD player - I would advise splitting onto 2 discs.