[MEncoder-users] bitrate or media problem?

[Trent Piepho]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote:
> dvdauthor complains on make the new dvd directly from the original VOB
> file. Then, after run dvdauthor I burn the image on a CD-RW media (not a
> DVD for testing purposes). The problem is that when I play it on my
> standalone DVD player
> on some scenes the audio and video are not sync or the image slows down.
>
> Could be a media problem? Should I try to burn directly on a DVD-R media?

Or DVD-RW media.  Lots of players have a much lower maximum bitrate for CD
media than for DVD media.  My player can only do about 2.5 Mbits for an
SVCD, but a DVD can go up to about 14 Mbits before it starts to skip.