I have been reading posts in different areas of the doom9 forum regarding robshot method for getting best quality from CCE. I realize the guide offered at doom9 was intended for dvd>dvd-r conversion. I also have noticed some people have actually been able to utilize this tool for SVCD conversion. I have some high action movies that I feel would be able to utilize the extra quality of the robshot settings, but also need the settings of dvd2svcd program and, unfortunately have not been able to figure out how to utilize them together. I tried for eight hours last night and never figured out how to do it.

I did a 1-pass vbr encode of the last vob file of fast and furious (lots of high action scenes).

Someone told me I had to tweak the bitrate settings (avg, peak, min) under advanced tab until I could get the max Q to 10. However, to get the Q level down to around 10, I was ending up with Bitrates of 8500+. The max bitrate listed for my standalone is 2500. If I set the max br to 2500, avg 2200 and min 0, the Q level shot up to like 50-60. I think the peaks were in mostly the high action scenes(assume).

Maybe I didnt get a grasp of the robshot guide, or the sticky listed in that area of forum for using with svcd, or possibly I am just not understanding something that is quite simple.

If someone could help me, I would greatly appreciate it. I am using CCE 2.5 SP with a 2Ghzp4 and using DVD2SVCD. Max bitrate for my player is 2500, I asssume this includes audio, which I normally set at 160-192 depending on movie lenghth, but noticed in fitcd last night that if I put it at 224, that it would allocate more br for the video which makes absolutely no sense to me either.

Please if someone could put this into context for me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks so much