What are the typical MPEG-2 bitrates and picture quality ?
A. Picture type I P B Average MPEG-1 SIF @ 1.15 Mbit/sec 150,000 50,000 20,000 38,000 MPEG-2 601 400,000 200,000 80,000 130,000 @ 4.00 Mbit/sec Note: parameters assume Test Model for encoding, I frame distance of 15 (N = 15), and a P frame distance of 3 (M = 3). Of course, among differing source material, scene changes, and use of advanced encoder models… these numbers can be significantly different.