Bitrate to high?

[duttzi]

Hi!

I have now ripped The Patriot trailer and encoded it to SVCD with TMPGenc. I used 2pass VRB with a Average at 2400 and maximum at 2520. But when I load it in Bitrate Viewer it says that average is 2400 (good) but the "peak" is 3349, is this the maximum bitrate my movie come up with.
If 3349 is the maximum bitrate of my SVCD, that mean that my SVCD isn't inside the SVCD standard (max 2600 bitrate).

How do I fix this?

[Truman]

Short answer: I don't think, that that will lead to playback problems.

Max bitrate and peak bitrate are not the same. MPEG encoders are not too accurate with the bitrates. The average bitrate is too high. There wont be a difference between VBR 2pass 2400 and CBR 2400 in quality.
However, you can not fix it with TMPG because TMPG does not save a video information file as CCE do. With cce you can correct that peak bitrates and encode one more pass.
I suggest to multiplex with bbMPEG. If it do the task without errors, the SVCD might play without problems anyway.
If not you may correct the local bitrate with MPEG Repair. But probably that is more hassle than just do a new encode.

[stanwebber]

old versions of bitrate viewer misinterpret 3:2 pulldown & artificially elevate bitrate 20% on 24fps encoded streams