Maximum video bitrate

[emilius256]

Someone know if it's possible to use always the maximum video bitrate?
Explaining, I want rip a movie whith 2 audio tracks at 160-192 Kbps and use the maximum bitrate for svcd (i guess is 2530) and go for 3 cd if 2 is not enough.

The movie is 92 Min.

Thx.

[halcyon]

You should be able to go to the bitrate tab in DVD2SVCD and set the max, min, and max avg bitrates (last row) to the same value (2530 or whatever) and do CBR (constant bitrate) instead of variable bitrate for CCE. You could also convert using standalone TMPG because I'm pretty sure you can set the exact bitrate that you want it to encode at. You'd probably have to rip and frameserve manually though. Also, I don't know if DVD2SVCD will do multiple audio tracks, although I think there are tools that can mux multiple audio tracks to a video. I'm only speculating here of course, because I've never tried to do what you're doing. But since nobody else has replied, I thought I'd throw my 7 cents in.

-=<halcyon>=-

[Kedirekin]

If you mean encode at constant bitrate of 2530, then yes you can (actually, I think the official video max is 2,600,000 bps, which is 2539 Kbps). However, if you want to stay within spec, you shouldn't exceed the total bitrate limit (which I believe is 2,788,800 bps).

[da franksta]

@halcyon:
yes, dvd2svcd supports two audio tracks

@emilius256:
if you want two audio tracks, one 160 and one 192 kbps, you have 2371 kbps left for video (considering a total max of 2723 as recommended by dvd2svcd). You can do a CBR of 2371 kbps encode and you'll need 3 cd's. This should be the answer to your question.

If you would do a 4-pass VBR aiming for 92 minutes on 2 cd's, the quality would probably be equal! This would take a lot longer to encode, but you would have to change cd's less. Just a thought.

[fgm]

if you want two audio tracks, one 160 and one 192 kbps, you have 2371 kbps left for video (considering a total max of 2723 as recommended by dvd2svcd). You can do a CBR of 2371 kbps encode and you'll need 3 cd's. This should be the answer to your question.


Does the second track really count here since only one audio track can be played at a time?

[dvd2svcd]

Yes it does.

[emilius256]

Thank you for all this good answer.