How can I increase the quality in bbMPEG?
The advanced settings allow you to mess around and make quite some noise. However.. most I don’t understand what most options mean so I suggest if you’re interested you’ll ask in the bbMPEG usergroup. Of course DC precision, motion search vectors and such things are obvious candidates to change. How many minutes of video can I fit on a VCD / SVCD For VCD it’s simple: CD size in Kilobit (multiply with 1024 to get from MB to KB and with 8 to get from KB to KBit) / 1374 = number of seconds. For SVCD you divide by (video bitrate + audio bitrate) to get the playlenght for a single CD. A normal data CD saves 2048 bytes of data per sector, the rest is used for the error correction. A video CD has no error correction, so a larger number of sectors will fit on the CD: Data CD: CD-R with 330.000 sectors * 2048 bytes/sector = 675.840.000 bytes = 644.5 MB Video CD: CD-R with 330.000 sectors * 2352 bytes/sector = 776.160.000 bytes = 740.2 MB Data CD: CD-R with 360.000 sectors * 2048 bytes/sector =