What bitrate should I chose for a SVCD?
Once again visual perception comes into play. I can’t tell you.. you really have to find the best settings out on your own. SVCD can have up to 2600kbit/s video and 224kbit/s audio. You can use lower audio for SVCDs and get a higher video bitrate. To increase the quality encode at 23.976fps rather than 29.97fps and enable to 3:2 or 2:3 pulldown. When I encode I select a min bitrate of 500, a max bitrate of 2500 and an average bitrate of 1500 and at least 4 passes in CCE.