Max video bitrate in still menu

[Eki]

How high can it be? I'm reauthoring Blade II and noticed that there are still menus that have video bitrate over 20000 kbit/s. I always thought that 9800 kbit/s is max allowed bitrate.:confused:

[auenf]

still menus are single frame m2v's, and almost all authoring programs require you to provide a bmp or other image format instead, which the authoring program then encodes to a still m2v at about 8mbit.

you are probably looking at a m2v with multiple still menus in a line, which blow out the real bitrate figure.

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[Eki]

I demuxed it with vobedit and it is a single I-frame. Resulting .m2v is huge. Over 160 KBytes :confused:
When importing file to scenarist it asks if I want to make a still menu or a still show. It does not complain about bitrate or want to encode it with lover bitrate.(No files in encoding cache folder after import or build) Did some testing and it seems that scenarist does not care about bitrate if source is just single frame .m2v. If source is two frames or longer then it complains about bitrate.

[auenf]

put the disc back in, use dvddecrypter, setup file mode to split by cellid, right click, stream processing on the file in the list, and set them to demux, and you should get multiple single frame m2vs

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[Eki]

I did what you proposed and the resulting file is single frame .m2v file. Both bitrateviewer and Vdubmod say that there's only one frame.