Understanding bitrate

[fatboy95]

I have been reading through the forum and was trying to figure out the best bitrate setting for creating VCD's. I have been using TMPGEnc Plus to convert my AVI's to VCD's with the stock setting of 1150. I use the 80min CDR's to burn the VCD to and it has so much room left on the cdr that I figure if I could raise my bitrate higher for better video quality.

What would be the outcome of doing this, maybe raising it to like 1800 or so.

Thanks

fatboy!

[Truman]

VCD requires a constant bitrate of 1150+224 kbps, no more, no less. http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcd.htm

[dgsmith]

COMPLIANT VCD requires that 1150 bitrate. I use around 1750 or so to get appro 40 minutes on a VCD. Quality is way better, sacrifice time.

ds

[banjazzer]

I have been reading through the forum and was trying to figure out the best bitrate setting for creating VCD's.

You can increase the bitrate, but it might be more useful to experiment with the 2-pass VBR settings. If you set the average bitrate to 1150, you would still get ~ 80 minutes VCD on an 80 min CD, but with better quality (provided you adjusted to a reasonable max and minimum bitrate). You would have to burn as non-compliant VCD, and check that your player supported non-compliant VCD. Alternatively, you could experiment with getting 100 minutes or more on an 80 min CD without noticable drop in quality by reducing the average.

[Mirror_Image]

COMPLIANT VCD requires that 1150 bitrate. I use around 1750 or so to get appro 40 minutes on a VCD. Quality is way better, sacrifice time.

That's an XVCD, not a VCD.