svcd resolution

K well 2 things. 1. Yeah, 352 x 576 should seem really strange because its double the height of VCD but not the width. Basically, the dvd player just resizes it to 704 x 576 on playback, the half resolution is to up the bits per pixel and therefore the encoded quality. and 2. 100 minutes on one CVD will look like crap because it will be a bitrate of about 900 kbps. You prolly shouldnt attempt this unless the quality is absolutely irrelivant.

Another "x" type besides 352x576 is encoding mpeg1 VBR 352x288, which would fit exactly for your problem. I make such xVCD quite often and have not found a DVD-player NOT capable of playing VBR, at least if you stick to a min bitrate of ~500 which is required for quality too. Depending on the source(DVD, and/or letterboxed) you will be able to get 100-110 mins, even if you use a sharpening resizer.

right, but vcd and svcd are very different. First off mpeg-1 was built to perform well in the 1-2 mbps range at lower resolutions. Mpeg 2 was built to perform at 2 and up and with higher resolutions. And 1000 kbps for twice the pixels would be like encoding it at the same resolution at 500 kbps. Hmm.. damn, I dunno what to tell you to do... hmm... maybe just find out if VBR mpeg-1 will work on your player and re-encode with some filtering. Yeah, that'd probably be the best thing.

cool that it worked :D