[datdork]

thanks for the replys

That might be a setting you can change now or something, to do max or avg. Good call Lynne. But that raises the question (if this is true), are all the older bitrate readings from v2.5 and previous not as meaningful (avg BR is a much more informative statistic IMO)?

I looked around under setting and there isn't much to change. saw nothing about changing max vs vbr.

so it does appear that any bit rate reading done with v2.5 is only the max and not the vbr.

playing the dvd back in powerdvd you can right click > show information. it shows the video around 2mbps and going as low as 1.4 mbps.

I sent a nice email to the author and pointed them to this thread. one guess is that it somehow accidentally got ran through shrink or a similar program. or as lynne pointed out they didn't set the range.