TMPGEnc Problem !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[homantam]

When I am about to burn DVD using TMPGEnc,I recieved an error message like this .
The " Title 1 " clip's total bitrate in " Track 1 " track is too high for a DVD-Video.
The clip current total bitrate is 10112 kb/s . However , in a DVD-Video the clip total bitrate should be lower than ( 9848 kb/s ) . What can I do to avoid this message to come up again ? What does it mean by bitrate is too high ? Would this affect the quality of the DVD that I am about to burn ? Please,please, someone help me !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wile_E]

The maximum total bitrate for DVD is 10080 kb/s. So if your total is really 10112kb, you are a little over.

But TMPGENC is wrong, stating the maximum video+audio is 9848kb. This is an ERROR in the program that the developers have never fixed. It is why I abandoned the program and won't upgrade until things like this get corrected. Again, you can have a maximum of 10058kb/s. Anything over that, and your DVD may not play in some players. But all DVD players should be able to play up to 10058kb. If you find a DVD player that won't play 10080kb/s streams, then I suggest throw it away. It's not DVD compliant.

9800kb/s maximum video bitrate
+ 256kb/s audio
= 10056kb/s maximum.

This is under 10080kb.

So since you are a little over at 10112kb/s, you should either re-encode or transcode it to reduce bitrate. There are a number of tools on this website in the tools section.

[nTekka]

I agree with Wile_E on the bitrate, but disagree that TMPG is wrong with the bitrate. My reason is that in their help file it says,

"The DVD-Video standard requires the total video and audio data bitrate does not exceed 10.08 Mb/s. When authoring a DVD-Video within the DVD standard, the sources maximum total bitrate must not exceed 9.8 Mb/s (9848 Kb/s)."

This shows they know full well that the max is 10080kbps but chose to stay with 9848kbps probably for two reasons, the maximum allowed video bitrate is 9800, leaving about 48kbps for audio. This is likely their own set limit to provide a wider range of compatibility with older DVD players. Secondly, this is only a WARNING, they do not prevent you from continuing the encode beyond 9848 or 10080kbps.

If you read their wording carefully, it does not sound like the DVD standard is 9848kbps, but this bitrate is WITHIN the DVD standard, and likely their own recommended max bitrate but not enforced on you.

Wile_E, I hope you reconsider this as an "ERROR" and see why they aren't "Fixing" it, so I hope this isn't the only reason you don't want to use a perfectly good software.