Best bit rate for XSVCD...

[j1d10t]

Does anyone know the best variable bit rate for an XSVCD? I'm trying to fit about 43 minutes on an 80min CD. I've tried FitCD, but it won't let me choose XSVCD as an option. Any help would be greatly appreciated

[tito13kfm]

https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm

[j1d10t]

That will only tell me a constant bit rate. I was hoping that someone has had experience with this, and knows some good variable bit rate settings for TMPGEnc.

[Anonymoususer]

These are the settings that I use...emphasis on I,

Minimum of 800, 1996 for around 50 Minutes, max 2520,

The average depends on your movie and how long it is...also I lower the Audio bitrate to 192 to squeeze in more Video Bitrate...hope it helps...usually when you use TMPGEnc to convert it tells you how big your file is going to be or yhow big you want it to be when you about to start encode...hope it helps...

[hwoodwar]

My own preferences for 2-Pass VBR (TMPGEnc) are min 1000, avg 2200 and max 4000 with motion search precision set to high quality. I do adjust the average a little to fill the CD using the TMPGenc project wizard. For 43 minutes you can probably take it to 2300-2400kbps and still fit on an 80 minute CD. These settings give me good to excellant quality images from a good to excellant capture file, with very few macroblocks or motion affects.

I capture and encode at CVD resolution (352 x 480), but since I usually have the maximum video bitrate at 4000, technically I am creating XSVCDs.

If you are capturing video yourself, vice ripping from DVD and you are using VirtualDub, I suggest you watch the capture video bitrate and consider adjusting the maximum accordingly. Based on the capture bitrate I sometimes lower the maximum to 3600kbps.

In setting any video bitrate higher than the SVCD specification, you should check your standalone DVD player to make sure it can play that bitrate.

[corob4]

this calculator has xvcd and xsvcd setting hope this helps and its freeware.

http://www.tomzavodny.cz/program/bitcalc/index_en.php

[Gazorgan]

Use the calculator to fit your length to the CD. This becomes you 'Average Bitrate' for multi-pass VBR (CCE or TMPG or whatever). Me, I use 500 minimum and 3000-3500 max depending on the action level of the source.

Sometimes going higher than 3500 doesn't leave enough bitrate in other places, despite the average. This is really only an issue in 2-pass TMPG. With 4 pass CCE (5 real passes) this doesn't apply nearly as much.

[Anonymoususer]

Ok that Minimum Bitrate that I specified is not really a good Idea, I forgot to that IF you raise your Min Bitrate too much it can cause problems, and that's what happened, Min bitrate should be between 300 or 500, it would be an Idea to not any lower or higher then that, for XVCD, SVCD or whatever your making...this is in my opinion, I'm not an expert but I'm experimenting around and it kinda messed up the movie...


BTW that calculator is pretty good...

[Tagger]

One comment on minimun bitrate.

Some DVD players don't like it when you go too low on the bitrate. My Pioneer, for example, dosen't like anything below 800.

[Donny661]

my Apex AD-800 doesn't like anything below about 1150 and still sometimes has problems. I try to fit it so my average is above 2000 to keep it from going too low.

[j1d10t]

Thanks for all of your help. I went with a 2 pass VBR, with 1000 min, 2450 average, and 3000 max, and it looks great. Thanks again