What ABR to achieve DVD Quality?

dwswager · 23rd April 2007, 02:10

Can someone point me to the answer to this basic question?

I'm encoding DVD to AVC using MEGUI. I use a variant of one of the 2 pass "slower" profiles from Sharktooth.

What average bitrate for AVC will provide essentially equivalent quality to DVD MPEG2? I realize there is a lot rolled into what is required, but I'm just looking for a guideline. What I normally do is divide the DVD video size by 2.3 and set the video filesize in the Bitrate calculator and use that as the target filesize. Any thoughts?

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dwswager Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 4	What ABR to achieve DVD Quality? Can someone point me to the answer to this basic question? I'm encoding DVD to AVC using MEGUI. I use a variant of one of the 2 pass "slower" profiles from Sharktooth. What average bitrate for AVC will provide essentially equivalent quality to DVD MPEG2? I realize there is a lot rolled into what is required, but I'm just looking for a guideline. What I normally do is divide the DVD video size by 2.3 and set the video filesize in the Bitrate calculator and use that as the target filesize. Any thoughts?