Apologies if this has been done to death already, but I am converting DiVX AVI files to MPG for playback on my DVD player and I was wondering about the bitrate to use to convert it.

Obviously the standard VCD bitrate is 1150k, and I was looking to increase this using a 2-pass VBR with TMPGEnc to somewhere in the region of 1800k, but the original DiVX clip was captured at 900k. Does this mean it is pointless re-encoding to MPG at anything higher than 900k as this is the limiting factor, or would re-encoding it at a higher bitrate improve the quality?

Thanks,
Kevin.