TMPGEnc DVD Author Error - Video Bitrate too high

[powerkoala]

On importing DVDs the program complains the total bitrate is too high. What do I do - it says the bitrate is 10248KB/s , and the maximum is 9848 KB/s.

The properties of the "Track" are : Video 9800 KB/s , Audio : 448 KB/s.

I read there was a solution somewhere and I must work on my original source disks.

Can someone explain simply please?

[Baldrick]

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic324973.html?highlight=tmpgenc%20high%20bitrate

[powerkoala]

Yes, they state to ignore the warning, I'd rather not, so what do I do?

[Soopafresh]

https://www.videohelp.com/tools/DVDPatcher to patch the header with a lower stated bitrate.

[manono]

Yes, they state to ignore the warning, I'd rather not, so what do I do?

Why not ignore it? It's a known bug in TDA. TDA doesn't know the real max video bitrate when it opens the video. Only if you get buffer underflows while the mux is going on will you know that the max bitrate total is too high. Or do what Soopafresh suggests and change one wrong number to a different and lower wrong number.

[FulciLives]

Funny timing.

I was just backing up a DVD that I have that is a DVD9 but it has two movies on it and I just imported each movie into TMPGEnc DVD Author and made two single layer DVD discs ... one with each movie. Thus no compression was needed. Both times I got the "bitrate too high" error but so what ... I doubt a Universal DVD would be incorrectly encoded and I know TMPGEnc DVD Author just gives that warning based on the header info (which is often wrong) so I just ignored it.

I've had to ignore that a bazillion times. It is a non issue UNLESS the bitrate really is to high and if you are encoding your own stuff then sure that is possible ... if you have no clue what you are doing LOL

In short ... just ignore it.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[PuzZLeR]

Don't mean to bother the forum with an old thread, but it came as a result of a search. Yes, I understand TMPGEnc Author's warning too well and I thank the folk for their input here.

I've revived it in case it comes up in another's search with this bit of info, particularly those that use CCE like I do very much.

Sonic Scenarist fully accepts these streams encoded from CCE - any bitrate, fps, pulldown, rez, etc, as long as you enable "for DvD" in the Video setting section of the Encoder setting in CCE.

If Scenarist accepts them, (for both DvD and even blu-ray projects) rest assured, they are compliant. You can go ahead and ignore TMPGEnc's warning and author your project with peace of mind.

CCE is my MPEG encoder of choice (worth every penny of that $ I spent on it) and have not had any problem with any disc on any player after dozens of projects - on many DvD players they were made for - whether authored by TMPGEnc DvD Author or even NeroVision.

[jimdagys]

I also get these warnings (bit rate too high, DVD too big to fit on 4.7gb disk) with TMPGEnc Author3.
I ignore them and never have a problem. I think it depends on whether you are satisfied with these errors, considering the cost /benefit ratio of the software. If you are not satisfied, complain to TMPGEnc, since it is a bug in their software.

[FulciLives]

Sonic Scenarist fully accepts these streams encoded from CCE - any bitrate, fps, pulldown, rez, etc, as long as you enable "for DvD" in the Video setting section of the Encoder setting in CCE.

That is somewhat dangerous advice without explaining what the "for DVD" option can and will do. In short it will make the file compliant and screw up things like the resolution and fps etc. so for instance if you check that option you can't encode 720x480 25fps which is common when doing PAL to NTSC conversions. The "for DVD" option will try to either change the resolution to 720x576 (PAL standard) or change the fps to 23.976fps/29.970fps (NTSC standard). I forget which way it will work but you get the point. Also checking the "for DVD" option will make it resize from Half D1 to Full D1 etc.

So one has to be very careful when using that option also it is not necessary to use that option as you can make a DVD compliant video without check marking it as long as you are OK with all your other settings.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[PuzZLeR]

Hi FulciLives,

Thanks for pointing that out. I guess the point I was making was hypothetical - as long as the stream was encoded with enabling "for DvD" with CCE, bad or good quality video, it will be compliant, and you can go ahead and ignore TMPGEnc's warning.

If you are out of range with your rez, fps, or whatever, CCE's "for DvD" will "compensate" and its choice of modifications in the encode will not necessarily be the best choices - but it will make it compliant.

But, in agreement with you, if you don't know what you're doing the result may not be worth the pennies it will cost to burn it onto a DvD anyway...

I too certainly wouldn't recommend dumping any ol' source into CCE and expecting miracles with enabling "for DvD". You may need a brief background on AviSynth to get a decent encode out of some stubborn sources.