• DVD Authoring

  Maximum safe AC3 bitrate

  Posted by Nathan Brunner on May 16, 2013 at 11:24 pm

  Advice on the maximum video bitrate someone can safely use for encoding DVDs is fairly plentiful, but it seems that those recommendations don’t mention a max audio AC3 bitrate.

  Based on advice I’ve seen, for the video component I will probably shoot for 7 mbps CBR. But in conjunction with that, is there a max audio bitrate I shouldn’t exceed?

  Target audience could include less tech-savvy or third-world country users, so broad compatibility is desirable.

  Thanks in advance.

  Michael Slowe replied 13 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Michael Slowe

  May 20, 2013 at 10:13 am

  I was always told that we need to consider how much space we have available for the audio and have always set my audio for 256, although a lot of encoders automatically encode at 196. My audio settings give really nice sounding audio and I never have problems with the playing of my DVD’s.

  Michael Slowe

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