DVDMaestro maximum video bitrates?

[nullinvoid]

I'm doing some tests with TMPGEnc encoded video, looking for the best quality, but I'm having some problems when compiling the DVD in DVDMaestro. With a 6000Kb/s CBR encoded file, I get a "The calculated VIDEO bitrate is too high for a legal DVD stream" error message. Since TMPGEnc offers up to an 8000Kb/s CBR option and I'm only adding 2-channel AC3 audio to the movie, I don't understand what the problem is. I thought the maximum data rate for DVD was over 9000Kb/s...?

[SiC]

Maximum video data rate for DVD is like 9800kbps. I really don't know why you're getting that message. Try viewing your encoded mpeg2 stream with bitrate viewer and see if it really does go beyond 9800kbps.

[nullinvoid]

Interesting--it hits a peak of 8281K, even when TMPGEnc is set to 6000K. I guess between the audio and other VOB data, the rate ends up topping 9800K...?

[jeffnoone]

If video peak bit rate is 8281, you should have room to spare unless you have added many soundtracks
AC3 is a max of 448K/sec
I dont know the rate for DTS, but since the DTS file usually seems to be about 50% larger, I assume its in the 700 range
Subtitles and the padding stream shouldnt amount to much

So unless you have >3 soundtracks, I cant see you going over 9800