What is a good bitrate for an MPEG-2 w/ 720x480 resolution?

[BrindA17-Kevin]

A bitrate that will avoid pixelization during action scenes?

[musher70]

9000

[BrindA17-Kevin]

9000

wow, lol. How about a minimum?

[hwoodwar]

Are you talking about for DVD, XVCD or XSVCD?

[musher70]

dvd 720x480, capturing at least 6000....8000 better...9000best

when ur finished with capturing and ready to go to disc,u can
always reset that in dvd w's, to conform to ur limitations such
as disc space etc....like i capture at 8k, c how much space i
have then pick a number or u can u a calc if u want 2....

[BrindA17-Kevin]

Are you talking about for DVD, XVCD or XSVCD?

XSVCD

[hwoodwar]

Most of the responses so far, seem to be for DVD, not XSVCD. For CVD resolution as well as SVCD format and XSVCDs (720 x 480) I get generally get good results using 2-Pass VBR, min 1000, average 2000-2500 and a max of 3500-4000 this gives me 45-50 min of play time on one CD. I also, always have motion search precision set to high quality. I have a fast system and encoding to 720 x 480 XVCD using TMPGenc and the above settings takes about 5-7 hours.

[BrindA17-Kevin]

Most of the responses so far, seem to be for DVD, not XSVCD. For CVD resolution as well as SVCD format and XSVCDs (720 x 480) I get generally get good results using 2-Pass VBR, min 1000, average 2000-2500 and a max of 3500-4000 this gives me 45-50 min of play time on one CD. I also, always have motion search precision set to high quality. I have a fast system and encoding to 720 x 480 XVCD using TMPGenc and the above settings takes about 5-7 hours.

You receive no pixel problems with a bitrate that low?

How is 720x480 with a bitrate of 2250?

[Bondiablo]

9000 can be too high depending on the audio you use. Try VBR 8000 max, the minimum can be as low as 0 and the average should be as high as you can go and still get your footage on the disc(s) you want. Anything 4000 and up should be good.

Basically, the same goes for SVCD but anything over 2520 could cause you trouble with your player. If you can fit what you want on a disc with CBR 2520 you're probably better off using that otherwise try VBR with a max of 2520.

[SatStorm]

Always use multipass VBR (like 2 Pass)
for 352 X 288/240 an average of 1500kb/s is excellent
for 352 X 576/480 an average of 3000kb/s is needed. Perfect is 3500kb/s
For 704 X 576 you start with an average of 4000kb/s (You have blocks that way). Good picture you have with an average of 6000kb/s. Many few blocks on extreme scenes that way. For perfect picture, an average of 7000kb/s is enough IMO.

If now you convert sea waves or a water polo match, 8000kb/s are necessary and some times ever more is needed. Extreme situation IMO

[BrindA17-Kevin]

Thanks for the advice. It takes so many discs though if you want a full movie at high quality. For instance, Lord Of The Rings took me 5 discs at a minimum bitrate of 2756 (basically an XSVCD). I tried lower quality, but was just too disappointed, so I tried the maximum SVCD bitrate (2756), and went over it a bit (it's ok though, my DVD player will play XSVCD's).

36 minutes on a disc is pretty short, but I guess that's the sacrafice of being a bit picky about the picture. To make a copy of LOTR at 9.8mbps (DVD quality), it would take 17 disc, lmao. Even having a DVD burner with disc capacity of 4.7 gig, it would take 3 discs for DVD quality (and at 3-7 bucks per disc ).

Is there anyone else who has used 5 or more discs for ONE movie? I'd like to see if I am the only one who is crazy .

Also, I have been using 4-pass VBR (it was recommended in a tutorial for DVD2SVCD). Should I go lower? When i change it to 2-pass or CBR, the max bitrate for my number of CD's doesn't change in DVD2SVCD.