Nandub Question

[Ham]

How do I determine the filesize of the movie that will be encoded before processing it with nandub?

[UncasMS]

since it is a matter of the codec and its settings the resulting file size varies and thus this question cannot be answered!?!?!?

make your choice, go for a two cd rip and your file will end up at ~ 1300+ mb to which your sound stream will have to be added.

[Ham]

I'm trying to compress a 711Mb file to 700Mb so it can fit on a 80min CD-R. When I enter information into a bitrate calculator, I can input what size the file should be produced after encoding right? So is this file size reflective of what nandub will output when I enter the information from the bitrate calculator into nandub? I guess my question is what settings should my nandub be so I can compress the video to 700Mb and producing optimal results.

Also there an apparent visual improvement in quality if I was to compress the video in nandub than if I was to use Virtual Dub?

P.S. I'm ruling out the possibility of overburing the file or splitting up the movie. I want to compress this movie optimally with nandub.

[benderman]

If you use the bitratecalculator and "get data from audio source" is selected the calculated bitrate should NEARLY fit to the selected amount of MBs. Most times I get around 1 or 2 MB more than I selected, so you should use 698 or 699MB instead of 700MB. Then start "File -> Two passes..." for the best quality. If you allready know a little about DivX you can tune ub a bit in the "SBC Settings". Maybe it is easier and much faster to reduce the audio quality. In a 90min-movie the reduction from 128kbps to 112kbps saves around 10-11MB.