Bitrate for home video

[cheerful]

AVCHD home video, 1080i, 17 Mbps, not much motion.

I am trying to squeeze more into a DVD+R disc. What bit rate should still give me decent quality?

I do understand quality here varies by person but I'd want to get some idea on what bit rate I should try first.

Thanks!

[budwzr]

I would cut it down to 720p instead.

[manono]

What bit rate should still give me decent quality?

There's no way at all to know in advance. Different sources compress differently. Do a q-based encode and let the size fall where it may. And if you're making a DVD, you'll have to resize to some proper DVD resolution. If not, then what are you trying to do? Shrink the size a bit so you can burn a data disc instead? If so, figure the bitrate that will fill the disc.

[cheerful]

is 720p standard?

I want to create AVCHD-DVD.

[manono]

is 720p standard?

Yes. So you want to create a Blu-Ray compliant DVD for playing in a Blu-Ray player:

https://www.videohelp.com/hd

The allowable framerates are:

1280x720x59.94p, 50p (16:9)
1280x720x24p, 23.976p (16:9)

And once again, if the video's short, do a Q-based encode. For a longer video use a bitrate that'll fill the DVD+R. Or keep it 1080i. Is it too large for the DVD+R that you're asking about reencoding it?

[thunder2008]

A good rule is a bitrate of 7000 kbps for the video...
The higher the better... i try always to use this rule so i won't comprimize quality...
btw i myself always uses 1080i and converts it to 1080p... i do encodings of my HDTV recordings from 1080i to 1080p.
and i use dvd-dl too, i use it for my bluray backups for good movies i need to keep if the original gets bad.