On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Florin Andrei wrote:
> I create DVDs for quite a while using 8500 and never had problems.
The successes were never mentioned till now - all we've seen are
the problem reports ;)
> I guess I could start encoding at lower bitrates, but you know - my DVD
> player has the option to display short-time bitrate averages (like, 1
I was something like that once but haven't seen too many players
with that capability.
So what does the player say when the shuddering happens? Sounds like
that'd be a good way to see if it's rate related or not.
> sec average or so) as the movie is playing, and with commercial material
> I often see the bitrate going above 8500, sometimes significantly more.
Peaks, yes. Long term average is considerably below that - often
around 6000 or so.
> Then maybe it's not a bitrate problem.
So what does the player say when the shuddering happens? Sounds like
that'd be a good way to see if it's rate related or not.
> In any case, using packages is becoming more and more a reality, at
Not for me ;)
> Any freeware tools I could play with? Ideally on Linux, but I guess I
> could reboot to Windows every now and then.
Google's your friend :) "mpeg2 verifier" might be a good starting
point.
Few seconds of searching came up with:
http://andreas.welcomes-you.com/projects/dv/
There might be others - I haven't had a need to research further.
Steven Schultz
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