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Midnight Tboy
9th June 2002, 16:23
Hi there.

just wondering......when ripping svcds which I've done a cpl of dozen or so now, in the audio bitrate, the audio for the svcd is usually set at 192 or 224 bitrate, which I know is similar for vcd bitrates in order to be compliant.

Now when I encode the movies over 2 discs, I tend to keep it at 224 and keep at 48khz, though sometimes depending on length of movie or if I'm using 2 audio tracks then I'll drop it to 192 and sometimes 44.1khz


anyways....I see a lot of the guides on making svcds seem to show in the example pictures, but not talk about, what setting for the bitrate should optimally be (I know obv the higher the better but for a general good quality average) as they seem in the pictures to be at sometimes 128 or 160???

should I really drop the bitrate to 160 to save that extra space on the disc for the picture without losing any noticable sound loss or should I stick with my 192 and 224s?

cheers

orbit-r
9th June 2002, 17:00
hi
most people think when not downsampling from 48 to 44.1 the best is not go under 160kbs..

me think so too...and i believe the more bitrate (for video) you get when go a step lower (160 to 128) is not much...


gruss
orbit-r

Trahald
9th June 2002, 17:39
i do my svcds at 96 kbps 48 khz joint-stereo... 100 kbps extra for video makes a big difference (im not that into sound)

chainsaw135
9th June 2002, 18:48
I always stick to 192 and 224, 99% of all my movies are only 2 disks long. Only movies that are over 2 1/2 hours do i use a 3rd disk those settings i have played around with trying 128 and so forth its all preference really, try doing some tests see what you think. I myself wont go under 192.