cbr or vbr in tmgenc

[lioron7]

what is better?
i know that vbr take a lot of time but does this much better then cbr?

[guns1inger]

It depends on the runtime, the bitrate, the content and the quality of the source.

If you have less than an hour, you may as well CBR at a high bitrate.

For my money, if the bitrate is getting down below 7500, then 2 pass VBR is the better way to go. That said, I use CCE, which is fast enough to do 3 pass VBR is half the time tmpgenc does a CBR encode.