bitrate problems with DVD transfer

[greymalkin]

I used DVD shrink to rip/compress 3 movies and Womble MPEG Video Wizard to splice them all together. I will neeed to put them all on a dual layer DVD, but when I go to re-author I get the error that the bitrate of the DVD will exceed DVD standards. It says the video bitrate is 9800kbps(VBR) and the audio is 448kbps (DD 5.1) and this will make a non-standard DVD. I can't re-encode at a lower bitrate because I know i'll never get anywhere near the size of the specialized mpeg encoding process the movie studios use. Is there another way, or will the dvd still play ok since it's VBR and not 9800kbps CBR? I suppose the transcoding process doesn't really touch the bitrate?

[greymalkin]

why this is a marvelous thing! ok..well lets say i decide instead to compress to divx (using their latest codec 6.0) and keep the size small enough for a single layer dvd-r. I am running into an issue where it is encoding the video fine until it comes to a place where i spliced the two movies together (i did this with womble mpeg video editor and did a stream copy to a new mpeg file). After that spot it shows that SAME frame (the one right before the transition to the other movie) until the end of the movie.

I'm thinking I can get around this by encoding right up to the last frame before i did the split and saving that as avi1, then doing the same for all the other clips, then going back and joining all the divx files back together..and lastly muxing the ac3 back in. if there a better way i'd be happy to hear about it.

[lordsmurf]

Your MPEG files need to match specs to avoid issues.

As far as the bitrate TDA issue, just ignore it. TDA is wrong. Max spec is 10080k combined A+V

[greymalkin]

excellent..then i'll go ahead with the dl burning of the dvd. This was my preferred method anyways. The original 3 mpeg files would be slightly different as well because I ripped them all using dvd shrink and the compression ratio might have been slightly different from one to the other (like 1 or 2% difference) as I was trying to make them add up to a particular size that would be small enough for fitting on a DL dvd.

Now I'm scared to try and burn it on a DL though with all the terrible experiences i've heard about.