Bitrate Calculation Errors

[monteie]

I tried using Procoder 2.0 and I am pretty happy with the simplicity and resluts of the software. The only issue that I am having is that of project size. Using the bitrate calculator here I put in my values. The project in question is 1:51 min. I get 5265 as an average bitrate. Now when I put these values into Procoder the final mpg is too big. It comes out to just 4.1 gigs or something around there.
I was wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that I am encoding using MPEG-2? I usually encode with MPEG-1 but thought I would try something different?
Below are the settings that I am using. A correction that should be noted though is the fact that the Max bitrate of the final project is 8000 not 6000.



Thanks

[guns1inger]

What's killing you is your audio. You are telling Procoder to output uncompressed audio (LPCM). The bitrate calculation used above assumes audio at 224kbit/s (2 channel AC3 or Mpeg1-layer2), whereas LPCM is around 1500kbit/s. Change the audio output type to mp2 and try again.

[monteie]

Thank you so much.... I am a little new with procoder so I don't know all the ins and outs. I'll give that a try.

Cheers

[monteie]

One other thing..... What sould the value for Min bitrate be? I guess I'm looking for just enough to keep the dark moments clean.

Thanks