Hi,
I have encoded a capture of The Deer Hunter at 29.97fps in TMPGEnc with the KVCD Plus 352x480 template. I tried muxing the first 94+ minutes with bbMPEG using the DVD2AVI generated MPA file at 224kbps. It came out to 836MB, a little too large. So I used HeadAC3he to re-encode the audio as MP2 to 192kbps. Also did a conversion to 160kbps. Well, with either the original 224 or even 160 the final movie file size is the same, or within a few bytes

. What's going on? I am *not* selecting to pad the VCD audio either. Here are the last few lines of the bbMPEG logs for each, adding the file size:
With 224kbps audio:
Multiplexing information
Video stream data rate : 321900 bytes/sec (2575200 bits/sec)
Audio stream 1 data rate : 28000 bytes/sec (224000 bits/sec)
Overhead data rate : 4600 bytes/sec (36800 bits/sec)
Total data rate : 354500 bytes/sec (2836000 bits/sec)
Multiplexing file e:\capture\the deer hunter00.mpg
Finished multiplexing e:\capture\the deer hunter00.mpg
Final file size: 836,206KB
With 160kbps audio:
Multiplexing information
Video stream data rate : 321900 bytes/sec (2575200 bits/sec)
Audio stream 1 data rate : 20000 bytes/sec (160000 bits/sec)
Overhead data rate : 4500 bytes/sec (36000 bits/sec)
Total data rate : 346400 bytes/sec (2771200 bits/sec)
Multiplexing file e:\capture\the deer hunter00.mpg
Finished multiplexing e:\capture\the deer hunter00.mpg
Final file size: 836,289KB
Any ideas??
Thanks,
Geoff