I have an mpeg that has a bitrate of 9.8MBits or somthing crazy (came from a DVB-T tv card). I want to make a DVD from this file. I can do this using IFOEdit quite easily, and the resulting DVD plays on my computer just fine. The problem is that it doesnt play properley. on my DVD player. I believe this is because the bitrate is far too high. Is there an easy and fast way (without re-encoding the entire video) to bring the bitrate down to standard dvd?
I have authored dvds before from DV cam footage etc and have encountered the same problem with my dvd player when I set the bitrate too high (over 8mits).
you have to re'encode it i believe. if you import the file into windows movie maker or premier, then export it as dv-av, then you can encode to mpeg2 {vob} using applicatins like 'winavi' or' vso divx 2 dvd '
i have encoded a few 8mbit dv-av's to mpeg using vso, and it retains the bitrate, and plays fine on my dvd player.
it might be the kind of media your using, or if your dvd player is quite old, that may be a factor.
dvd players can handle upto 9.8mbps. so i guess its your IFOEdit method which may be the troubling factor.
Quote:Is there an easy and fast way (without re-encoding the entire video) to bring the bitrate down to standard dvd?
No. You must re-encode.
Quote:dvd players can handle upto 9.8mbps
Wrong. Not all players can even handle 9mbps, and that would be on a commercially pressed DVD, not a burn.
In most cases, a burn must be less than 8mbps to play, especially on some of the more finicky players.
