Bitrate of existing VOB?

[DaveS]

A friend of mine made a home movie DVD but didn't like the quality so I thought I'd try to see what's wrong.

Step 1 - look at the bitrate of his existing dvd (made on a mac &he doesn't know what bitrate is & can't see anything in the idvd s/w to find the setting):

- Ripped one VOB file off his DVD
- VOBEDIT to demux his VOB into mpeg (m2v) and audio (wav)
- GSPOT to look at his mpeg file - no stats are shown for the audio - message is this is an mpeg file - not currently supported by gspot
- muxed audio and video file
- GSPOT to look at muxed file - same results as first time (just an experiment)

that's not working, so maybe just a quick manual calc:
- Divide total bytes in m2v file by total seconds runtime...shows ~2m bytes / second
- Mult by 8 bits/bite=16MBPS video file - something's wrong w/ calc

ok. plan C:
- pull up vob file in dvd2avi
- play VOB file (preview)...shows average bitrate on graph but can't find a way to correlate that to an actual #...

any suggestions? this seems to be harder than it should be!

[DaveS]

bump - pls. don't nuke me

[Baldrick]

tried bitrate viewer ?

[DaveS]

thanks!! just what the doctor ordered!