Shall I use CBR or 2-pass VBR for DVD encoding?

[Lonely_Fool]

I used to encode at 8Mbps CBR for material I transfer from VHS/LD to DVD. Sometimes this doesn't play well on a standalone DVD player, you will see macro blocks, but they play okay on a PC. I wonder whether most standalone DVD player will work with CBR-disc, or in general, we should encode with VBR?

Thanks.

[Baldrick]

all players supports cbr and vbr.

which encoder are you using?

[Lonely_Fool]

I use TMPGEnc.

[pijetro]

Sometimes this doesn't play well on a standalone DVD player, you will see macro blocks,

You've got something wrong with your burner, player, discs...

VBR takes advantage of squeezing as much as you can onto a disk by allocating bitrates more economically...