From: Maurice Helwig on
M.L. wrote:
>
>> What bitrate calculator do you use ensure that your Xmedia Recode mpeg2
>> file fits on a DVD5 disc.
>>
>> I have a few DVD's to do and this method looks simple and effective
>
> I use Video Bitrate Calculator
> http://www.aswsoftware.com/products/bitratecalc/bitratecalc.shtml
>
> By default Video Bitrate Calculator allows enough overhead for menus
> and subtitles.


Thank you. I will try it.

Maurice Helwig
From: M.L. on


>> I use Video Bitrate Calculator
>
>I ditched that a long time ago, had forgotten why and gave it another
>chance today. Now I know again why I got rid of it. I keep getting
>"'4.375' is not a valid floating point value" followed by "Unable to
>calculate mpeg/author overhead" before I even tried to to perform a
>calculation. Moreover it would not exit properly and stayed in RAM.
>Uninstalled it again.

I've never had such problems with Video Bitrate Calculator on my Vista
system.

>I use occasionally: "BBC should be able to calculate the bitrate to
>use when encoding to VCD, SVCD, DivX, XviD, DVD and lots of other
>formats."
>http://www.bincsoft.com/?page=bbc
>
>No install, portable if you don't save the settings, simple program.
>No problems.