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Originally Posted by RainDawg

Why's that? It's the best way to shrink a DVD just enough and make it DVD compliant that I know of.

This kind of bitrate "peeling" is actually a bit more artifact-prone than re-encoding using a really good encoder - I'd guess DVD Rebuild with CCE would be the best way to do it if it can't be avoided.


Anyway, I'm pretty sure in this case re-encoding can be avoided by mere patching as described in my previous post. Hey, chances are that the video never peaks at 9.8MBit anyway -

MPEG-2, 720X576 25 fps PAL 9800kbps
Dolby Digital (AC-3) 48000 Hz Stereo, 192 kbps

That just screams "digital video broadcast". And these usually stay well below 8 MBit.

Originally Posted by RainDawg

By the way, TMpgenc is a reasonable name I think. The name is T and it's an MPG ENCoder. OK, so it's not as nice as some others, but it's not totally unintelligible.

Yep.. Tsunami MPG Enc(oder) actually