question about bitrate

[tvandang]

what does a higher bitrate do to a movie quality? the higher the better?

thanks!

[snowmoon]

MPEG compression is ~30-70:1 compression. The more bitrate the less compression needs to be applied to the movie. The less compress the more like the source the encoding can be.

But, as many have found, often your TV ends up being the limiting factor in how much of a diffrence you can see.

[tvandang]

so the more bitrate the less compression and therefore you have a bigger size movie? so does it enhance the quality of the movie at all?

thanks!

[snowmoon]

Also remeber that VCD has a strict bitrate specification and SVCD has a MAX bitrate limitation. If you break these specs you cannot guarentee that DVD player will accept them.