Whats A good bitrate for DVD

[Bluesilo]

I've gotten close in the past by id like a more average number...for the bitrate of a DVD...Im encoding using Canopus Pro Coder....And USing CBR....TIA

[Bluesilo]

I forgot to Add...The film is about 2 hours in length

[DIggedy]

Is there any reason in particular you're going for CBR? I'd recommend using VBR for best quality at an optimal file size.

[Jolard]

Variable bitrate is always preferable, unless you are incredibly pressed for time.

I usually do my home DVD's with VBR, 2000 minimum, 6000 average, 8000 maximum. However this would be tight for a 2 hour video. Best bet would be just to reduce the last two values until you get closer, I would guess that 5000 ave with 7000 max, might get close.

[Richard Iredale]

You don't even need a calculator to figure this out:

Divide 600 by the number of minutes in your finished video. The result is the video+audio bitrate to shoot for.

For example: I want to put 2 hours on a DVD-5 blank, using AC-3 2-channel audio.

600 / 120 = 5Mb/sec

AC-3 requires about 0.2Mb/sec, so that leaves 4.8Mb/sec for the average video bitrate. I would personally set my parameters in CCE to: min=0, max=9, avg=5.8. Done.