Is it possible to set too high of bit rate?

[wm_cheng]

HI all,

I am new, and have sucessfully encode a few Japanimation (fan-subs) to XVCD with the help of your great site here! I have a Sony DVP-C650D and it only reads VCDs, but XVCDs seems to work. My question is this: is it possible to encode a bit rate too high for my DVD player to play. I encoded a file VBR averaging 3000 but I bumped the max to 6000 and the min at 1000. I find that in a complex fast moving scene, the audio becomes choppy and there is the occasional glitch in the video as well. Is this too high of a max bit rate for my particular DVD player to handle? It plays fine on my computer, and I encoded the same file at CBR 3000 and it plays fine on that DVD player.

Thanks, William

[Gazorgan]

It depends on your player. 6000 is a bit high. I've tested mine up to 5000 for XSVCD, and realistically I couldn't tell the difference between 3500-5000. Definate difference between 2000 and 3500.

Make some sample encodes, maybe 1 minute each, of the same high action scene. Encode from 2000-6000 in 500 steps. Burn on a RW and play them in order, and observe. I strongly encourage everyone to test their players this way, especially if you like/use XVCD/CVD/XSVCD. Make sure you include sound, as this is typically one of the indicators that you've hit your wall.

[Begbie]

This is confusing me a lot.

IS the difference between an XSVCD and a SVCD just rthe bit rate? So really i can ignore the svcd limit of 2.6mbit and cruise up to 3.5 no worries? Providing my dvd like XSVCD ?

On the box mine says it also supports; HDCD, DVCD, CVD. But i see no guides on turning my miniDV into this type of format.

When running into heaps of problems making SVCD for my player (vcd is fine) it kinda seems like i need to raise the bit rate, as i made a svcd going up in 200 from 1500 CBR to 2600 cbr - it was easy to see the improvments, but i felt it could have gotton a lot better.

In this case would it be recommended to use a different fpormat? eg CVD?