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Encoding 1 pass CBR
I got a disc rejected from the replication company. I have searched and read all the post regarding VBR vs. CBR. I have decided to go with CBR. This is the 2nd disc in a 2 disc set. I do not need each element to be the same resolution. But – my question is, in order to ensure that the disc passes/will replicate okay, do I need to have the CBR rates for all elements uniform, or could one track be, lets say 6.0 CBR, while another track 5.0 CBR, and if that ‘s the case, and all other elements are correct, should this be able to play relatively failure free?
thanks,
Keith
p.s. I would like all the tracks to be at a reasonably hi-rate, but I have over 100 minutes of footage, of the rate was uniform, it comes out to something like 4.5 mps.
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CBR or VBR won’t matter for the rejection from the replicator as long as they are under the bitrate ceiling of 9.8/video; 10.08 video/audio.
What was the reason they gave?
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I haven’t gotten the reason yet (tomorrow), I was just trying to be pre-emptive and make a (somewhat) educated guess. The original disk had 1 or 2 tracks that were 2 pass VBR, with the rest being single pass VBR. The bitrate was 7.7 maximum and 5.9 average. I forgot to turn lossless linking off in the version I sent (as suggested by some on this forum), which I will on this version, so I’m hoping that was possibly ther problem as well. On my end everything plays fine, the menus work. We’ll see. This version, 1 file is 5.8 CBR, with the rest being 5.0 CBR.
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You bitrates sound fine. You might want to re-check them anyway to make sure you’re below that ceiling. Try one of these:
Which authoring tool are you using? How did you submit for replication? You need to hear back from the replicator before you can do anything else.
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Oh…I see the lossless linking comment…obviously you’re using DVDSP. Did you submit DDP images for replication? Do not give a burned DVD as a replication master! You can write out DDP images by choosing HDD as your ouput then choose DDP 2.0.
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Thanks! Will do.
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Thanks again Eric,
I will give that a shot. (DDP)Keith
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When using DDp 2.0, what about audio, do you have to include that file separately? (as I see there is nothing i the audio TS folder.
thanks,
Keith
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Everything is contained in those files
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Note of explanation
Audio TS is always empty. DVD spec had an Audio-DVD standard that never took off, that required a player to be Audio-DVD compatible, very few were.
Even though this folder is always empty, it always needs to be there. There is no negative to having it there but some older players will not play if the folder is not there. So never delete it.
One of the scratch your head type of things, but it is confusing.
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Thanks Michael,
I was wondering what that was all about. Anyway, I left it in.Keith
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There should be no MEDIA folder on the final disc.
Only Video TS (this this all the DVD needs) Audio TS (empty)
if you add DVD-ROM material this would be included.If you are encoding within DVDSP it makes other folders/files of the assets but that does not go on the final disc.
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