Good variable br. DVD capture program?

[TwIZzlEr]

Just wondering if there was one. I would love to have it, but all the programs I have are constant only. Anyone know of any and are they good?

[bartman]

The problem you have is that by capturing you are streaming data to your hard drive and need to encode it as quick as possible (i.e. realtime). To use VBR the encoder needs to grab a chunk of video data and analyse it to work out the bit distribution. Since BR is "bits per second" the encoder would need to gather a seconds worth of data and do it's thing.....meanwhile another second or two have elapsed and you miss out on video data. With a constant bit rate you can encode the video quickly because the encoder doesn't need to worry about how to best distribute the bits.

The problem with video capture is that it is almost always realtime (from a TV card or other input source) and you can't slow it down or speed it up to suit your encoding needs. For realtime VBR to work you need to be able to compute the bit distribution and write the data in 1 second or less. AFAIK this can't be done in software yet.

[TwIZzlEr]

Ok, thanks for the fast reply.
:P notice my late one