Bitrate (a little bit lame)

[OMS Diver]

I hesitate to ask such question but I hope you will forgive me.

Correct me if I am wrong. I have ripped a movie onto the HDD. The m2v file was something 5.6GB large. Using TMPGEnc I have recompiled the movie using Automatic VBR (CQ_VBR) rate control mode and 9000 - 2000 max - min bitrate + 20% quality setting. The final movie (ca. 3.6GB) is showing quite good quality in terms of sharpness, colours and so on but the standalone DVD player is "choking" - freezing the pictures for less than second. As I understand this is the result of too high bitrate on those moments, isn't it.

OMS Diver

:scared:

[slk001]

No... this is a problem with bad media. No authoring software should allow you to import video that exceeds the spec (9.8Mbps).

[OMS Diver]

OK. But I have played other movies, that however does need the rempeging and the moves were OK. Is it possible that similar effect can happen as a result of too low bitrate.

OMS Diver

[john@sympatico.ca]

I'm sure you tested the project, but I thought I'd ask just to be sure:

-Were there any problems with HD playback prior to burning?

-Are you able to burn to a DVD-RW / DVD+RW for testing purposes?

[OMS Diver]

No. I did not have any problem with playing a "HDD located" DVD files and I was able to burn DVD (IfoEdit for authoring and ImgTools for image creation). Maybe I was not very specific with my question. The settings with TMPGEnc were 2000 - 8000 (so by definition they did not exceed the limit). The only thing that from my perspective is questionable is the quality setting (20) - the higher setting produce the file bigger than original and of course bigger than DVD-RW allowance. Right now I am testing CCE but I am just curious what other aspects (apart of bad media - I am using Verbatim DVD-RW) may cause such effect. The effect were only visible on standalone DVD. The PC one plays the disc with no problems.

OMS Diver

[slk001]

Your standalone DVD player may not be compatible with DVD-RW media. Go to VCDHELP.COM and check your player for compatibility with -RW media. Verbatim media is high quality stuff (but I haven't used their DVD-RW stuff).