If you set them too high it can choke some DVD players.
No, that's a myth. ALL players brandishing the DVD logo are fully capable of handling the maximum allowable bitrate for the DVD specification.
That myth arose because people were making bad burns, using less than quality blank disks and burning hardware. This created disks with lots of errors on them, which the player will try to correct by rereading those problem sectors. That attempt to reread is what causes the stuttering. It's the errors that cause the problem, not the bitrate.
