Droping down Audio Rate

[silenttalk]

If I drop down the audio rate on a vcd to say 192kb/s is it likely to play on a standalone dvd player (Philips 751) or will it refuse it because strictly speaking its not vcd compliant ?

[vitualis]

It may or may not play properly (probably will) in a DVD player.

However, why do you want to drop the audio bitrate and also may the disc non-standard?

Regards.

[cybermage26]

Its worth a shot, but majority of the time your audio will play in spurts and incorrectly.

[silenttalk]

I wanted to drop the audio rate slightly to reduce the filesize in the hope it will fit on one cd, im only about 80mb away from the file size i need.

[vitualis]

Dropping the audio rate by such a small amount is not going to save you 80 MB...

80 MB is actually quite a large thing... Have you tried higher capcity media? (e.g., 90/99min). 80MB is about 8mins of standard VCD video. If your CD burner can take it, a 90min CD-R disc should be able to completely fit it without modification and most players can read 90min media just fine.

Otherwise, you should think long and hard about cutting your video in two and burning them on two discs.

Regards.

[Graham Meredith]

I once encoded a movie with 128k sound, so that the whole movie would fit on one disk. In my DVD player, the video glitched a lot, but the sound was ok. It 128k must just be too far out of spec.

Graham

[Redhawk]

I just recently used 128kb/s audio to fit a movie on one disc and it played perfectly (Pioneer DV440).

[WildStyle]

silenttalk,

I had a similiar problem with an SVCD I recently got a hold of. It was about 30mb over the 793mb limit. So I demuxed, and rencoded the audio at 128. But, I found out that I could getaway with using 160. So I muxed the original video with the new audio, then burned.

Plays perfect on my Apex. But, then again the Apex's play anything!

[myke]

I use 128 kb sound for most of my Dvd rips. They sound and play great on my standalone Apex DVD. I know others that have played them on their dvd's and they don't work right though. dropping from 224 to 128 saves about 6-7 minutes of space meaning a 86 min video will now fit on a 80 min cd. Office Depot brand CDR's and PNY and ACER Cdr's allow you overburn at least 85 min but I have overburned them as high as 97 min granted I've made my share of coasters though, But 90 min and 99min cdr's are about a $1.00 a pc Acer cdr's are $15 for a 50 pack at Best BUY with a $10.00 rebate. If burning over 90 min it works best at 4X and under.

[mc4_idea]

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I use 128kbs and 160kbs a lot. If the source has questional audio it shouldn't matter. However, many encoder do strange things at any rate below 192kbs. Make sure to preview the audio before burning.