> I've made hundreds of DVDs using the VBR logic and they all > play fine on a variety of standalone players ranging from an > old Audiovox portable to a Philips (which will play anything it > seems).
I'm sure it works now, but it's one of those situations where cbr is working plenty good for what I'm doing - I have a lot of trouble telling the difference between what I've recorded and watching it on directv. The problem I was having with previous versions I believe was with mplex - cbr or vbr, nothing would ever play if I used mplex. I had to use tcmplex, and it'd only work if it was cbr. Now that mplex appears to be working for me I will eventually give vbr another chance. > Why not use the '-b' bitrate as an upper bound and calculate > according to that - if the project comes in smaller that's not > a Bad Thing, I frequently use the extra space to put scans of > the artwork, and so on onto the disc. I'm not understanding how this would produce better quality if I'm setting the upper bound to be what I'm currently using for cbr. Seems to me at worst I'm wasting a few bits today using cbr, and if I switch to vbr I may save a little space but I'm not sure why I care :-) Typical bitrates I'm passing for cbr are around 5500. > But there's no need for making CBR an option - it's already there. It isn't an option today if one selects -f8 or -f9 - there is a check in the code for these two types to see if -q was passed. If -q is 0 (default/unpassed) it forces it to 8. > contrary) - try it, it'll generate better movies. I'll give it a whirl. I've burned around 80 DVD's now (largely converting old VHS tapes to DVD) and have been extremely pleased with the quality using CBR. I'll let you know if I can see any difference between CBR/VBR. Thanks for the encouragement - you've convinced me to at least try it once more :-) -- Ray ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
