finding bitrate in avi file

[danielmak]

I searched the forums and found various discussions about changing (or not changing) bitrates when converting files, but I didn't find anything about how to find the bitrate in a file. Is there a way to find out the bitrate at which a file was encoded using a Mac? I am converting avi files to DVD and getting images that, for lack of a better term, lack "warmth"/"appear stiff or overly digitized". I have used the 3:2 conversion with ffmpegX DVDmpeg2enc so it's not that the image is jumpy (anymore). I'm wondering if I raise or lower the bitrate a bit from ffmpeg's Best bitrate if this will help. But I don't know how to find the bitrate of the avi file. I can say that mpeg4, yuv420p, 960x544 comes up in the video source format window for the AVI.

Any advice? Thanks.

[ffooky]

I find D-Vision to be the most trustworthy. Hit The big Tools button, select Re-encoding avi or mpg file..., drop your AVI in the little window and hit the More infos button.

[danielmak]

I find D-Vision to be the most trustworthy. Hit The big Tools button, select Re-encoding avi or mpg file..., drop your AVI in the little window and hit the More infos button.

Perfect. Thanks for the tip.

[live4ever]

What kind of avi file? DV-avi, XviD other mpeg4? The more info the better - if you're converting from XviD or DivX it is harder to get a good DVD encode because it is so compressed already - also what bitrates did you use in ffmpegX and at what resolutions? VLC or MPlayer also will show the bitrate for avi files.