What are the "standard" settings for a DVD

[silentbob1999]

When re-encoding with TMPGEnc, what are the best settings to make the most standard DVD (hoping to achieve maximum compatibility for stand alone players)

Settings I'm talking about are:
Encoding type (CBR, VBR, CQ, etc)
Video bitrate
Audio bitrate

Anything else that might be applicable to my efforts.

Thanks for the help.

[ShibaInu]

This is what I normally use...

2 Pass VBR... in my opinion, it produces the best results. I usually set my max bitrate to 8000, the minimum to 0.... I never include the audio stream into my encoding... I usually demux it in DVD2AVI and leave it as is...

Hope this helps... If you have any other questions, please ask.

[silentbob1999]

I understand that VBR probably gives the best quality, but I'm wondering what gives the best compatibility.

Is a standard DVD encoded VBR?

as far as audio goes, "leaving it as is" isn't a good option for me because depending on the source I am using the audio is in very different formats and encoding rates.

[ghoster]

i have tried both. neither one had any problems. i would stick with cbr because vbr takes a lot longer well 2 pass vbr or more dose..

[puertorican138]

Also, make sure the audio is at 48000Hz and the "frames per GOP" is set to 15 (PAL) or 18 (NTSC) depending on where you live.



Hope That Helps!!! :P