TMPGEnc audio reduction/video increase

[Ty]

First of all ... 'Hiya'.


Now, having flicked through the forum, it's given me a little food for thought.

The VCD-Pal template in TMPGEnc has an audio setting of 224kbps.

By editing this manually in the template to say 128 or possibly even 64, this would presumably bring the resulting audio file down in size drastically. Would this then allow the video file to be increased in quality, while still keeping the overall MPeg size to the usual (700 - 800 meg per disc), and if so would it still remain standard compliant, so it played in standalone DVD players?

Any thoughts appreciated, especially regarding the actual video settings.

[marsmayhem]

What you'd then have would be an XVCD, I believe, since VCD spec requires audio to be 224 kbps.

MPEG2 SVCD supports different audio bitrates.

Someone correct me if I'm mistaken...