AVI2DVD - Audio Bitrate Help

[icecold killa]

When converting avi2dvd everything is perfect...It's just the audio bitrate i needed a little advice on as im unsure which audio bitrate is suitable to select and why. Any reccomendations would be much appreciated...

Ive herd 192kbs and 224kbs are both good, if i choose a higher bitrate does that have any affect on the quality of the actual video when encoding?

When choosing audio bitrate should i select something thats nearer to the actual bitrate of the avi. For example, a recent avi i made i checked it in g-spot and it had the following audio info:

Codec: 0x0055(MP3, ISO) MPEG-1 Layer 3
48000Hz VBR 145 kb/s total (2 chnls) LAME3.93

because 145kb/s is nearer to 192kb/s am i better off selecting that, or would 224kb/s work just as fine aswell?

I know this sounds like such a new-b question and it is, but please can anyone shed some advice on this issue as it will really help me a great deal. Thank You.

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Tools I Usually For This:
Main Tool: AVI2DVD
Encoder: Hcenc 0.17
Burner: DVD Decrypter

[jimmalenko]

224kbps is standard for VCD and SVCD audio, and some here consider this as the absolute minimum they would use. However considering your source is VBR MP3, I don't think you'd notice the difference between 192 and 224. The higher the audio bitrate, the lower the video bitrate will be.

My rule of thumb is if my source is AC3 5.1, then I retain that. Otherwise I use 192kbps MP2.

[ark]

For home videos, 128kbps for Stereo MP2 is more than ample. I use it all the time. It is better to use the spare bits for the video.

Even 96Kbps or 64Kbps is okay but some stand-alone DVD players ( JVC for example) would not play the audio in such a case. By experience, 128 Kbps was found by me to be most compatible lowest bit rate that could be used.