Creating DVDs with VBR video streams

[mustardman]

Hi,

Every commercial DVD I have *ever* seen has a VBR video stream, allowing long play time without compromising image quality in complex scenes.

"Personal" DVD authoring stuff I have seen (in my very limited experience) will only allow CBR encoding, limiting the play time dramatically. Simple scenes use the same bitrate as complex scenes.:mad:

Of course you can push the rate down, but that starts to badly affect the complex scenes.

As far as I am aware, the audio is always VBR (unless you select PCM).

Any pointers to DVD encoders that offer VBR for the video stream?

Thanks.

[Matthew]

I think I've seen one DVD that used CBR, was like 7 mbit or something though.

audio = CBR, it's the spec.

Use CCE or TMPGEnc (latter is much cheaper if you can't afford CCE *snigger*) for video encoding.

This stuff should be very clear from the guides on the site I'd think :confused: