I've just spent the last few weeks ripping laserdisc to SVCD (no DVD
burner) and the AVIs I've ripped usually end up between 10-12gig for 30
minutes of video. Make sure you compress with the lossless Huffyuv codec.
Anyway, VirtualDub & TMPGenc worked well for me, but with my computer
(1GHz Athlon) it could take up to 75 hours to encode a single disc (~30
minutes).
Though I hear SVCD takes longer to encode than DVD (due to the odd
480x480 resolution) you gotta have a pretty hefty computer to encode
mpeg2 on the fly?

Anyway, doom9 [1] should have the tools you need.
You might also want to check out their guides.

/Patrik


[1] http://www.doom9.org/

NaB25J@AOL.COM wrote:
> Sorry for another OT post, but this seems to be the best knowledge base I have access to...<g>
>
> I need to cut some MPEG-2 video. I'm doing some home video to DVD transfers and there is wasted space at the beginning and end of each clip, as I started recording each clip to my computer before hitting play on the VCR. I have VirtualDub but it can't save in MPEG format to the best of my knowledge (I have a mod that opens them). If there is a mod out there that saves in MPEG format that would be great, as I really like VirtualDub.
>
> Saving as an AVI and encoding with TMPEG or similar isn't an option - I have 15-30 minute videos and an uncompressed AVI for 15 minutes of 720x540 video is about 20Gb. I'm using the demo version of DVD Lab to put the disc together and it includes a trim function that cuts the end of the video off, but I still have that 2 or 3 seconds at the beginning.
>
> Help?
>
> -Tony
>
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