SVCD Challenge - Does anyone burn about 1 hour of video on a single CD?

[joohang]

I use WinDVR to schedule and capture soccer games, which turn out to be anywhere between 50~60 minutes for each half.

The capture quality is decent and my goal is to keep some good ones on SVCDs so that I can watch them in my living room once I get a DVD player. The trouble is that I want to squeeze in one half onto one CD with decent quality.

I've been capturing under standard SVCD spec at 2515 kbps, which comes out to about 1 gig per half. My CD-Rs are 700MB media.

I am currently experimenting with TMPGEnc. It is re-encoding the 1 gig file into 1500 kbps (to see what size I get).

Since many TV shows are 50~60 mins long, which bitrate do you normally use? Also, which tool do you use to cut out commercials, etc?

Or shall I just make VCDs instead? Some of the soccer broadcasts look like crap any ways, so I doubt that it'll make a huge difference. I haven't experimented though. With SVCD quality, I can't tell the difference between live feed and archived playback.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

I'm pretty sure the default settings for DVD2SVCD will get 76 minutes per cd so it can surly be done. If your gonna use TMPGEnc you should probably check out these templates to get the most out of the encoding. I figure the best way for you to do it is to use CCE and "the Robshot" method but that might be a little to much learning to do what you want. There would probably be lots of info at vcdhelp.com that could be of use or if you REALLY feel like going hardcore goto Doom9.org but beware that place can be very advanced.