TMPGEnc DVD Settings

[dvdragon]

I need advice for Bitrate setting in TMPGEnc when converting .vob files to mpeg2. I want the max set to 8000. What are good settings for Average and Minimum? Thanks.

[bugster]

I need advice for Bitrate setting in TMPGEnc when converting .vob files to mpeg2.

.vob files ARE mpeg-2. No need to re-encode,plenty of ways of extracting the mpeg-2 video from a vob file.

If you have other reasons to re-encode, use a bitrate calculator to determine the best bitrate to use.

[dvdragon]

I need advice for Bitrate setting in TMPGEnc when converting .vob files to mpeg2.

.vob files ARE mpeg-2. No need to re-encode,plenty of ways of extracting the mpeg-2 video from a vob file.

If you have other reasons to re-encode, use a bitrate calculator to determine the best bitrate to use.

The problem is Tempenc DVD Author will not take clips with a high bitrate like LOTR or Terminator 2. They show up as 9800kbps. I have to recode them. So what are good minimum and average bitrates. Thanks for responding.

[ZippyP.]

So what are good minimum and average bitrates.

Set the minimum to 1,000 and set the average to fill the disk by using...

a bitrate calculator.

[dvdragon]

Set the minimum to 1,000 and set the average to fill the disk by using...

a bitrate calculator.

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There lies the problem. I don't want to fill the wjole disk. These are clips ripped using DVDShrink. So I want to get good size wile keeping the quality.

[ZippyP.]

So I want to get good size wile keeping the quality.

If you're not worried about size then don't bother with VBR. VBR is good when you want to keep the size small (or get more on a disk) while keeping quality. In your case a high bitrate CBR will be as good or better than a VBR.

You should be able to go to 9,000 kbps total, including your audio and video. If your audio is LPCM then your video should be 7,500...set it a little lower to be safe, say 7,000.

[jimmalenko]

I need advice for Bitrate setting in TMPGEnc when converting .vob files to mpeg2. I want the max set to 8000. What are good settings for Average and Minimum? Thanks.

The problem is Tempenc DVD Author will not take clips with a high bitrate like LOTR or Terminator 2. They show up as 9800kbps. I have to recode them. So what are good minimum and average bitrates.

here lies the problem. I don't want to fill the wjole disk. These are clips ripped using DVDShrink. So I want to get good size wile keeping the quality.

You are not doing yourself or anyone here trying to help you any favours by supplying the vital info in dribs and drabs like you have above.

Let us know what you have, what you want it to be, what programs you have tried and where you have run into problems. If you have been getting error messages, quote them exactly.

We'll be running around in circles otherwise

[bugster]

The problem is Tempenc DVD Author will not take clips with a high bitrate like LOTR or Terminator 2. They show up as 9800kbps. I have to recode them. So what are good minimum and average bitrates. Thanks for responding.

Actually the problem is Tmpgenc DVDA only looks at the mpeg header, in which the bitrate is often listed as 9800. In reality the bitrate is rarely this high. Use bitrate viewer on the vobs if you want to check.

This is only a warning from DVDA, not a fatal error. Skip it and continue. It will almost certainly be fine.