DVD Bitrate Calculator!!

[DCS 200]

If someone could please lend a hand I would appreicate it! I have been using REMPEG for the last 3 months, and it has worked fairly well for me. I feel like I am ready to move on to TMPGENC for a better quality encode. I think I have eveything down, but the bitrate calculations. With RemPeg I am using DVD-R Calc, it seems to be straightforward and easy to use. However, it doesn't seem to apply to my 2 pass VBR setting in TMPGENC? The way I understand it, I just adjust the AVG setting under the 2-pass setting...? Do I mess with high & low, or just leave them alone?? The bitrate calcs that I have seen here all seem to apply to VCD's & SVCD's not DVD's? Could someone lend a hand, and help me out as to which one I should be using to give me quality results, or maybe just drop me a mathmatical equation? I want to do this on the first time, and I am hoping for something accurate... if that's possible. Also, my audio is encoded @ 384k should I resample that also to like 192?

[adam]

The java vcdhelp calculator in the tools section supports DVD and seems to work well.

The min and max bitrates do not affect filesize. Your filesize is determined soley by your avg bitrate so just use the bitrate calculator to determine that. You min bitrate should be equal to the lowest amount of bitrate you think you will need to encode the least bitrate intensive scene in your movie, ex: ending credits. You max bitrate should be the highest bitrate allowed by the standard, 9.8mbits, or the highest bitrate your hardware player will support, probably closer to 9MB's for dvd players playing dvd-r.

[DCS 200]

Could someone tell me if this is available offline... , the problem I have is that I am running XP Pro and I can no longer get Java.... I have seen most people post that they use 0 for min and 9800 for max, is that "safe" to use? Also what about my audio bitrate, can I get by with 192, or should I leave it @ 384? Thanks for the reply...

DCS

[eatin sammiches for lunch]

if u cant use the java one here....i would recommend powerBIT bitrate calulator (dvd-r calculating only)

get it here:

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/powerbit.html

i would recommend keeping the max bitrate to about 9000 or 9500 kbits


i have a question for u. why not use CCE instead of tmpg for your encoding...itz MUCH FASTER!!!!!!!

and time really matters to me because of my system.......on my p3 500mhz it took 18 hours to reencode lord of the ring to one dvd-r with CCE. ii loaded it up in tmpg it showed up as taking more than 38 hours. both were using 2 pass vbr.........18 hours is alot better BUT DAMMMM I NEED TO UPGRADE BADLY..LOL

[wayned16]

I know what u mean u can no longer get Jave because i recently format my PC and no java web pages would come up, also it would not download. This is because micrsoft have taken it of there MS update because of a legal disbute. (Monoplising again). Because of another company wants the customer to use there product.

you can read it here http://www.microsoft.com/java/xp.htm

But u can download it else where, i just tried looking but i forgot where i downloaded mine. sorry

[wayned16]

i am good, i found it again
get it here

http://www.ddecirce.com/download/

Thanks to

http://www.windowsxp.nu/

[DCS 200]

Thank You so much for your help, and I did find Java. I downloaded the bitrate calc from here, it was fairly accurate. Can you go with what it says EXACTLY ? or do you still have to subtract some from the avg before encoding? I would like to use CCE - everyone is just back and forth as to which one is better. If I could find a down and dirty guide somewhere (or someone that is willing to walk me through it) I would like to use CCE, I have it on my drive, but man it seems so complicated...

[wayned16]

dude i though CCE was complex, but i sat down and just done it, and its not so tuff. plus it only takes like 4hrs to re-encode. i think CCE is probably the best. And i have used Rempeg and tmpeg to re-encode. http://www.doom9.org/mpg/cce-advanced.htm just follow this.