How do you create an SVCD using Nero?

[oceanauk]

Can anyone help please - I am trying to create an SVCD using Nero 6 - I add all my mpeg, avi and jpeg files, it shows I have a total of 512mb to burn then I start the encoding process which takes about an hour and a half then suddenly my disk pops out and it says I don't have enough room. When I cancel the pop up saying the disk is not large enough I then have to start all over again - I press the "burn same project" button and then find that mysteriously all the data I originally added to the disk for burning has increased in size to 812mb (hence why it won't burn) - why is this - does encoding make some files even larger? Can you advise any other burning software that would be quicker too? Thanks for reading all this!!

[stevie21]

To put an avi file onto an SVCD, I'm sure Nero has to re-encode it to mpeg which takes up much more room.
Do you have any software where you can (as a test) encode the avi files to mpeg before involving Nero just to see how much room they take up?

[cherrybomb]

I use www.WinAVI.com to convert. Hope this helps 

[oceanauk]

Thank you both for your replies.  I will give WinAVI a go too cherrybomb!