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razmalaidogg
16th February 2002, 04:59
I understand that the max total bitrate is 2723 kb/sec

If I decide that I want audio at 224 kb/sec and video at 2499 kb/sec(which is 2723 - 224) and I use CBR, is there any advantage to using VBR?

I understand that when using VBR more complex scenes can be encoded at a higher bitrate and less complex ones at a lower bitrate while still maintaining a specific avg. bitrate. However, if one is encoding at a constant bitrate which is as high as possible (depending on the audio bitrate which is chosen) would there be any point to using a multipass VBR approach?

The reason I am asking is, as many others have pointed out, CCE crashes are less frequent for me using CBR.

Thanks in advance,

Raz

Matthew
16th February 2002, 07:33
If you encode with CBR at the max value you would use for VBR then there's no advantage (quality wise) in using VBR.

SiliconSoul
17th February 2002, 00:51
smaller size files?