Posted by Bob on 01/15/35 11:57

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 21:44:42 +0100, "John Howells"
<john@howells-99.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>> >At the maximum DVD bit rate of 10Mb/s

>> ... minus the bitrate of the audio.

>No - the maximum DVD bit rate is 10Mb/s - period! Nowhere have I mentioned
>the video portion separately, which would be required to make the "minus"
>relevant.

>> It is the total bitrate that is capped at 10 mb/s.

>Which is the maximum DVD bit rate I referred to, so I am glad you agree with
>me.

>> Small nitpick, but it can bite you when you are authoring. I set
>> VideoReDo to 8 mb/s to leave lots of room.

>That does not change the bit rate of the VRD output, only the indicator it
>puts in the header. It can fool many a DVD authoring package that only
>checks that header, but offers no guarantee that a particular player will be
>happy with the resulting DVD.

You are correct in everything you just said.

I assumed you meant "video bit rate" in the initial sentence because I
wanted to let people know that there is a distinction between total
and video. I did not expect you to be so perceptive.


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