Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Anyone making AVCHD discs from a camcorder?

AVCHD DVDs technically should be limited to 10 Mbps for the full video+audio+sub-picture stream. But every player I know of which supports AVCHD on DVD has at least a 2x DVD drive. So you can use a mux rate of 20 Mbps. With audio, and packetization overhead you should have 17 to 18 Mbps left for video. Although that cuts play time in half, to 31 minutes for a single layer disc, and 54 for a dual layer.

If you set your camera to record at 18 Mbps, you should be able to remux the data into a chaptered AVCHD disc without having to recompress. The recompression would only need to be done for making the DVD. The Authoring Works I linked to above should be able to do both.