Can someone please explain this....

[seekninfo]

I capture TV programs using SageTV 2.1 set at DVD standard play. I then use Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3 SE to author the recording with no problem. I tried to use the trial copy of TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.6 to author the same movie. With the latter, I get a dialogue box which says that Video bitrate is 9600kbps and audio bitrate is 384Kbps and the total 9984kbps exceed the DVD standard. My question is why don't I get the same warning with Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3 SE as I get with TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.6? Does this mean that one is better than the other?

Can someone please explain why one gives a warning and the other does not?

I did not burn any of them on a disc as I was worried that I may not be able to play them on a standalone dvd player.

Thanks for any replies.

[lordsmurf]

This is not (S)VCD authoring.... moved...

And the answer is:
Because Ulead DVDMF may be re-encoding.
TDA is not.
You can just ignore it. Usually a VBR stream will not cause error. For CBR, this is way too high.

Max VIDEO+AUDIO = 10.08 MB/s (using AC3)

[daamon]

TMPGEnc DVD Author (TDA) gives the warning coz it believes that the upper limit for combined video and audio bitrate is 9,848kbps (9.848Mbps).

Reading the specs, and other posts in these forums, it appears that the max combined bitrate is 10.08Mbps.

The discrepancy may be due to TDA being cautious, or it may be to do with the number of bytes in a kilobyte (1,000 vs 1,024) or maybe it's just wrong.

That said, a proportion of stand-alone DVD players (don't ask "what" the proportion is...) have trouble playing discs that have very high bitrates - that's why most people encode with a max of around 8,500kbps.