Highest bitrate for playback on both Apple TV and iPhone

[henders98]

I read somewhere that the iPod and iPhone cannot handle videos with average bitrate > 2500 kbps. However, I tried playing some Handbraked encodes that are > 3000 and they seem to play fine. Now granted, I haven't tried playing them from start to finish, but the little 30 second or so samples I've tried have been OK.

Can anyone shed some light on this 2500 kbps "limitation"?

 

[spatlese44]

I too am interested in this. I started a thread about problems I was having streaming:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/825838/

Last night I tried using a setting about 2/3 of the "Apple TV" preset and that worked for me. Can't remember what that is though.

 

[mooblie]

I have encoded video with Handbrake at 9699kbps, and it playedback fine on an iPod touch 2G 8GB. Looks very good out of the AV cable into a TV.

This is beyond the Apple spec. for iPod touch video bit rate, but seems to work in practice. Media Info Mac info:

The file is huge, of course! Far too big for "general" use at 72 MBytes/minute.