Encore Transcodes MPEG-2 Audio & Bitrate Error During
Build

Encore transcodes the audio but the audio is already MPEG-2. The video and audio
assets have following properties:

.mpv = 8.0 Mbit/s maximum (VBR 6-8 MB)
.mpa = 0.2 Mbit/s fixed

And during transcoding the error "Bitrate to High" stops the build
process. Is there somewhere a limiter in action, or what is it?

What have you got the project preferences set to?
There is a setting in here that is defaulted to 7Mb/sec, as this is the
recommended level for written media.

Sir Wilkes...

Okay, I set the Bitrate to 9.4 Mbit/s, let's see if it works thru...

mpa:
The audio should be "MainConcept MPEG-Audio MPEG-1 Layer II-Audio" in
stereo, however I have no program affirm that. The import works, I was just
surprised that the audio gets transcoded, possibly to Dolby Digital. This
company always delivers mpa's since they work with Avid. I have the video
transcoded right there since the Avid 1x1 uncompressed quicktime codec does not
work with any Adobe products, well, normally we do the Avid stuff on Mac but my
boys are filming in London and Greenland so le chef has to do this one by
himself.

All is a bit complicated and confuse at the moment...

1) I wouldn't mind if the *.mpa on the timeline get transcoded to Dolby Digital,
but the DVD can not be built because an error in German appears saying that the
bitrate of the vido is to high and the video should be replaced by a video with
lower bit rate.

The maximum bitrate of any video is 8.0 Mbit/s, many are a little less. The mpa
audio bitrate is 0.2 Mbit/s.