why is TMPGENC DVD author screaming that the bitrate is too high

[BirdDaddie]

the files are encoded in CCE and have bitrates nowhere near 9800
the program is telling me when I try to output that the files exceed the DVD standard and it would be a non standard DVD
no matter what settings I chose in CCE it gives me the same warning
will it work ok if I chose to ignore these warnings?My inlaws have a player that is crap and wont play anything 9800

[Baldrick]

Just ignore it and it will work fine.

[jman98]

I don't have TMPGenc DVD Author, but typically this type of complaint is legitimate. The complaint about 9800 is not about the video only, but the video + all audio files. A video file encoded at a bit rate of 8500 + a PCM audio file will have too high a bit rate for example. If you are using PCM audio and/or also have DTS, perhaps the real problem is that your video is low enough but when you add the audio bit rates it's too high. If I'm right, I can't guarantee that such a DVD would play on your in-laws' player. If you are only using Dolby AC3 and no other audio and you are sure that your maximum video bitrate + the AC3 bit rate is less than 9800, then I'd say go ahead and ignore the warning.

[Denvers Dawgs]

Every dvd I've ever made using TDA 1.6 has always given me this error, just ignore it. I only use Dolby Digital audio, and all my dvds play fine in the 6 players I have tested them in

[lordsmurf]

TDA has a glitch in the software. It throws this error out a lot when it should not. Better software does not do it.

[BirdDaddie]

I use ac3 at 192 if that makes any difference

[jman98]

I use ac3 at 192 if that makes any difference

In that case, I'd ignore it. As I stated I don't use the product, so all the other posts about how it has a bug must be right. However, with other programs such as Scenarist, this would be a legitimate warning.

Your AC3 bit rate is kind of low. I'd advise 224 or 256.

[Alex_ander]

TDA uses bitrate info from MPEG header and CCE is known to write '9800' in some encoding modes independently from VBR settings and real output values. Here's a quote from CCE 2.70 original manual:

"In DVD mode, when you select 2-pass VBR, 9,800 kbps is always
written as maximum bitrate in the sequence header of output
MPEG files whatever value you may set. It is for more flexible
bit allocation to achieve higher quality. However, some authoring
softwares seem to calculate the bitrate for a DVD using this
9,800 kbps as video bitrate. And when multiplexing with PCM
audio, they consider the total bitrate out of DVD acceptable
range 10.08 Mbps. If your authoring software has this problem,
please choose MPEG-2 mode. Then the maximum bitrate in the
sequence header will be the value you specified. Note that actual
bitrate does not exceed your maximum bitrate setting even
if 9,800 kbps is written in the sequence header."

This means you can trust your encoding settings and safely ignore the warning if they are OK. I also remember TDA showing project oversize before outputting, I simply checked the size of original files and ignored this, the burning application didn't complain.

[RabidDog]

TDA warns "non standard DVD" . I think its input specs are way too strict, and there might be some small error in the headers or metadata that would cause it to be non standard (A space in the volume title eg "star wars", perhaps?). Most dvd players are fairly relaxed about what they play.

[lordsmurf]

TDA neither reads the data correctly nor adheres 100% to the DVD spec. Just ignore it when given the choice.