DVD-R Bitrates for VBR

[EricB]

If I'm encoding with VBR, what is a reasonable minimum and maximum for DVD-R?

[resnullius]

i use 3000 and 8500 and am usually very satisfied with the results...

[uteotw]

Max DVD bitrate is 9800 , so I substract the audio bitrate to find out the max video bitrate.

If I do TV captures I'll encode the audio at 224 , so max video = 9576

If I audio is 448 ac3 then the max video = 9352

When I analyze the encoded video with BitrateViewer I never saw a peak at my maximum bitrate. I think the highest I've ever seen is around 7000.

This works for me with A03 burner and 1.49£ DVD-R.

uteotw

[shardison]

Try TMPGEnc's CQ mode instead of 2 pass VBR. I use 2000/6000 and the average comes in at about 3500kbs and no artifacts. (Old)2-pass has freaked out my DVD player for some reason. You can fit a lot of nice video on a DVD at 3500kbs.

[SLK001]

The DVD standards are as follows:
MAX VIDEO BR = 9.8Mbps
MAX AUDIO BR = 912kbps
MAX STREAM BR = 10.08Mbps

I believe that the minimum video BR is 500kbps.

So, as a practical matter, using 384kbps audio, I set my MAX VIDEO BR to 9.5Mbps and my minimum to 1Mbps. Depending how much data I have, I set my average BR from 3.5Mbps to 5.5Mbps (usually 4.5Mbps).

But, as usual, your mileage may vary.