Reintroducing MPEG-2 video Bit Rates

[circadiansound]

I've reached out through email, as this was my understanding with regards to where we should report bugs or feature requests. I figured if I logged this here it would be easier to manage, as I'm sure you're inundated with support emails. So I will attach my support email below for the sake of convince, and for when you'll hopefully be able to get around to this, as I'm sure there are more pressing issues at this time.

I’m getting the same issue I originally mentioned to you regarding the audio playback dropping out after ~7secs when playing back the video, and glitchy video playback. Which makes sense, as there’s no longer any Video Bit Rate settings in the contextual menu for VCV Recorder in Rack 2.

Originally, when trying to record MPEG-2 video in Rack 1, I found I would get the same issue when using a Video Bit Rate of 65536 kbps. When using 32768 kbps or lower, I can capture a patch properly with both audio and video intact. This was consistent on 3 different machines I tested with VCV Recorder, and was also confirmed by a few other users.

I’ve tested this on my:

• Studio MacPro late 2013 model - OS X 10.14.6,
• MacBook Pro 2019 model - OS X 10.15.7,
• MacBook Pro mid 2009 model - OS X 10.11.6.

I have a feeling this is due to the missing Video Bit Rate settings in the contextual menu. Once those where added to VCV Recorder, back in Rack 1, I was able to capture clean video when stepping down to the second highest Video Bit Rate setting on all 3 machines without issue.

Would it be possible to include these Video Bit Rate settings again, in a future update for VCV Recorder?

Thank you for your consideration.