What's a good bitrate for CD viewing?

stormstereo wrote on 5/6/2004, 8:12 AM

When making a WMV8 file to put in a CD multimedia presentation, what is a good highest bitrate to ensure smooth playback and no stuttering? Yes I know it also depends on CD-player speed but please elaborate on the subject. BTW - the dimensions of the file is 560X448.
Best/Tommy

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logiquem wrote on 5/6/2004, 8:22 AM

Hi Tommy,

150 ko/sec. (or 1 150 000 bps) will be safe even for old 4x Cd-rom drives.

This is the old VCD standard btw...

You must also consider tragetted cpu for codec and video format choices.

logiquem wrote on 5/6/2004, 8:29 AM

Sorry, i did'nt read all the post...

In mpeg, near full screen playback at 30 fps will play safely on a P3 600, P2 400 being an absolute, risky minimum. As always in multimedia, test on the lowest targeted computer before making a choice. WMV will be more demmanding on the proc. than mpeg btw.

stormstereo wrote on 5/6/2004, 9:55 AM

Thanks for info. You seem experienced, please read my other post to see if you can shine some light there.

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=279465

Best/Tommy