Actual maximum bitrate!
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:41 pm
Apple says the maximum bitrate for a 640x480 h.264 is 1500. I beg to differ.
I went to reencode a few episodes of a show . . . I had used MediaFork's current framerate, which ripped the epsidoes at 23.98 fps. The episodes came out a little bit choppy, so I went back in and set it to 29.97. I wanted to make up the difference in quality (which I had previously set to 1400 in my other rips) by upping the bitrate to the max this time. After some testing, I was able to synch and playback h.264 rips all the way up to 1775 kbps.
I went to reencode a few episodes of a show . . . I had used MediaFork's current framerate, which ripped the epsidoes at 23.98 fps. The episodes came out a little bit choppy, so I went back in and set it to 29.97. I wanted to make up the difference in quality (which I had previously set to 1400 in my other rips) by upping the bitrate to the max this time. After some testing, I was able to synch and playback h.264 rips all the way up to 1775 kbps.