Every time I try to convert my AVI files to VCD with Ulead and AVI2VCD the files get 3 or 4 times bigger is there any program that will convert AVI to VCD with out making the file bigger?

VCD compliant code is approx 1.5Mbps. It can be made neither larger nor smaller.

Is your AVI file compressed smaller than that? Have you checked your resulting file to see what the bitrate is?

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I guess if your Goal is to Just get a Whole movie on a CD-R and Quality isn"t a Big concern then you Can Try useing Tmpgenc with those KVCD Templates as they "Claim" to get over 2 hours on a CD-R with VHS Quality But fromMy experience these Templates do not Produce very good Quality..Compliant standard VCD"s take up about 10mb per minute of Video...

A standard VCD has a total bitrate that corresponds to the bitrate of an audio CD. That means if your movie is longer than 80 minutes it won't fit on a 80 min/700 MB CD-R. A 80 min/700 MB VCD can contain 800 MB of VCD compliant mpeg1 because it use less error correction than a data CD-ROM.

Your avi file is probably divx or xvid compressed and then it is normal that the files are bigger in VCD format.