TMPGEnc DVD Author didn't like my source ?
 

I encoded an AVI into m2v with CCE with a max bitrate of around 2000, but TMPGEnc DVD Author reads as 9800.
So when I tried combining it with the and audio file I stripped from the AVI using BeSweet which had a 128 bitrate it said it would be to high.
I tried it anyways, the audio worked just it was out of timing with the video.
So does this need to be fixed in CCE settings or my DVD Author Settings?

Did you encode your audio at :arrow: 48Khz :?:

-kwag

Re: TMPGEnc DVD Author didn't like my source ?
 

Often the apps do not report the actual highest value reached in the stream, but the MAX value that was setted for the encodind job.

(note: 2000 is very low for an actual reached max ! Are you sure you are not talking about the average ?)

Yes my Audio was in 48khz, my videos come out decent around 2000 Bitrate, the actual max was 2229.

After a quick test I found that the reason it made the video show up as 9800 bitrate on DVD author was becuase in CCE I chose MPEG2 for DVD which I guess made a force fib of saying it had 9800.

I didn't get to check if now my audio will come out normal, but I guess so ?

The only bad thing for me now is since I'm encoding in regular MPEG2, to make it DVD compliant I have to resize the source instead of how it put it on a black background MPEG2 for DVD mode, 3x Longer than it originally took..
Is there any way to uhmm Put in the background before or after encoding ? (something that would take less then 30 mins on a 23-30 min video)

A quick glimpse in your manual learns you the following:

So if you deselect the "dvd compliant" option, CCE won't write the bitrate of 9800 in the header.

What do you mean with the 3 times longer encode? Encoding the movie over a background? I don't understand, can you be more specific?

Thanks gamma that helped alot, made it clear just to choose CBR instead of VBR.

Dialhot you were right 2k Max bitrate was to low, hehe thats why the sound and video didnt get along.

To answer your questions :
When I did it the first way I thought to solve my problem my encoding time went from 15 mins to 45 mins, but now in CBR I got a cool 16-18min encoding time on 23-25 min videos.

About the background, I was referring to this:
And if that was possible to be done seperately, but now it doesnt matter.

Also,
Reading around I saw that CCE was better for making MPEG2s but I see the same if not very close quality from when I was TMPGenc, the only difference being time and size. TMPGenc takes longer time but gets a produces the same quality as CCE does in a smaller size (for my source, 34.4k frames or 23mins 50-70mb Difference). Is this normal ? Is there a way to get the same results on CCE ?

but in all thanks for helping me fix my problem.

Wooow. DON'T do that, that wasn't what I said! Always use VBR, as it will dynamically adjusts the bitrate, and uses lower/higher rates for the scenes that needs it. Example: a 10 mins encoding with 3500 CBR is bigger and looks worse than a 10 mins VBR min 300 max 5000 rate. (if done correctly).

Hmm, 2k max can't be the reason that your audio is out of sync. Your video stream just won't look good.

Use a script with the resizing in it. Get your values from FitCD.

Use VBR :!:

CCE is a very good mpeg2 encoder, which gives good quality. Especially in the higher bitrates it beats tmpgenc in speed and quality IMO.

8O Wow, Got it. Thank you very much.

Your welcome :)